Word: essays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compromise. Earlier, Frohnmayer had announced that he was withdrawing a $10,000 grant to support "Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing," a planned New York City exhibition of artworks inspired by the AIDS crisis. The show was "political rather than artistic in nature," Frohnmayer said. He cited a catalog essay that denounced North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and California Congressman William Dannemeyer, both vocal opponents of gay rights, and New York's John Cardinal O'Connor...
WHEN I recently requested permission to dual submit an essay, I was told by one professor that my paper for him must be twice the regularly assigned length. His reasoning, he told me, was simple: dual submission is not an excuse for a student to do any less work than his or her chosen schedule demands. If I wanted to submit one paper for two classes, I had to produce a significantly more substantial piece of work...
...what right did this professor have to tell me how much work I should be doing? I could just as easily have chosen a lighter courseload and not had the problem of having to do two 10-pagers, a 12- to 15-page one, and a 30-page tutorial essay due for the end of the term, and he could not have done anything about...
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...this insensitivity that allowed Harvardians to evade the Vietnam draft with clean consciences and let the "hill-billies" die in their stead (a point made by James M. Fallows '70 in his brilliant essay "What Did You Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy...