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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Handbook for Students also devotes a page-and-a-half to a discourse on the evils of discrimination, including sexual discrimination. It expects students to "exhaust institutional routes for complaints before seeking legal redress under public law." Yet the University did not fulfil its moral obligation to fight discrimination by failing to endorse Lisa Schkolnick's legal complaint against the Fly Club when her options here were closed...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: Harvard, to Thine Own Self Be True | 11/9/1988 | See Source »

Although an Italian, Toscanini was portrayed as embodying the panoply of virtues that Tocqueville, a century before, had labeled as particularly "American": pragmatism, efficiency, and belief in democracy. In addition, Horowitz writes--and this is a fascinating insight--Toscanini seemed to fulfil America's dream of denying the significance of the past, which seemed to dictate that American art would continue to lag behind Europe...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: The Maestro and the Myth | 4/21/1987 | See Source »

...convincing selectivity. Its style and manners are indistinguishably British, with only a hint that the Dorns, apparently Jewish, belong to a community within a community. The characters are defined largely through their social behavior. Sofka: "A shy woman, virtuous and retiring, caring only for her % children, but determined to fulfil her role as duenna, as figurehead, as matriarch. This means presentation, panache, purpose and, in their train, dignity and responsibility; awesome concepts, borne permanently in mind." Alfred: "If he translates his predicament into fiction, if he views it as a pilgrimage or a perilous enterprise or an adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Relativity Family and Friends | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

Colantuano said that to his knowledge no action was ever taken on that complaint. "I believe the commission failed to fulfil its function," he added...

Author: By Beth A. Schwinn, | Title: Inactive Commission Lingers Past 60s | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

...part discussion last night, two parents assessed the difficulties of discovering that a child is gay and then realizing that he may not fulfil their conventional expectations of marriage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gay Teachers | 3/5/1982 | See Source »

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