Word: constraints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack on the very academic freedom that provided the source for the liveliness of intellectual thought and political activity at Harvard. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Harvard had fostered an "academic culture" that promoted scholarship for scholarship's sake, intellectual research relatively free of social constraint, and a solemn respect for creative academic thought. Because of its commitment to this ideal (and to a lesser extent, according to Lipset's analysis, because of its access to influence and financial resources), Harvard came to be though of as something of a sacred place for scholars. This was the Harvard...
...foreign money markets. New figures confirm that the money supply is being substantially expanded. Few bankers and economists are ready to predict that Federal Reserve policy will shift any time soon toward stiffer interest rates, even though the Fed views the dollar's weakness as an important constraint on U.S. monetary policy...
...expected tributes flooded in from all over the globe. President Richard Nixon called him "a man of vision, constraint, consistency and enormous strength of character." Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev praised him as "an outstanding statesman who commanded great respect in the Soviet Union." Egyptian President Anwar Sadat remembered him as a man who "proved by word and deed that he was a great friend of the Arab world." In his native France, boulevards and schools were already being named...
...welfare and reveal a desire to play safe. The shift away from graduate study in academic disciplines and toward the professions, particularly law and medicine, shows the primacy of role and allows them to retain an ambiguity in their attitude toward class. While some students seek to escape organizational constraint by pursuing careers as writers or artists, few search for a life of creative activity. When pressed, many of these free souls will reveal the ambition of celebrity. A commitment to significant work does not distinguish them from the aspirants for a professional career; rather, their commitment is curiously passive...
...hypnosis of the most expensive media-promotion. There is, however, one essential item absent from the standard presentation: Intellectual license is not serious, solid or substantial--certainly it is formidably circumscribed in implication--if, prior to words and long preceding deeds, our yearnings themselves are in such firm constraint that we no longer even wish to do that which, if we could wish it in large numbers, colleges and universities would then assuredly forbid...