Word: prevailing
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Judis provides useful insights into Buckley's conservative lineage. One early influence, Albert Jay Nock, an anarchist and enemy of mass culture, had visions of an intellectual elite he called the Remnant. Another, Yale Political Scientist Willmoore Kendall, argued that the interests of the majority should always prevail over individual rights. A loathing of the left had already been passed on to Buckley by his father Will, a Texas-born oilman who made a fortune in Mexico, only to have most of his property there seized in the years after the 1910 revolution...
Enjoining argument over the Thernstrom incident would have implied acceptance of the agreement on which all discussion depends: that the best case should prevail. That would matter not just for Thernstrom, this time. It would establish a precedent by which to judge other professors, other times. And so Kilson had as little to say as his colleagues...
...arrival, a week earlier, of their unprepossessing son Bobby and the stranger he introduces as his new wife. Audrey wonders whether Lydia, nee Di Salvo, the daughter of a prosperous private trash collector, will be able to live up to the lofty standards of manners and deportment that prevail in the Graves family. Still, the weather is sunny and warm enough to soothe implicit tensions. And everyone is looking forward to another marvelous breakfast prepared by the houseguest of the past week, Chuck Burgoyne...
...Crimson recorded its first goal of the second half with 3:59 remaining in the game, and went on to prevail, 10-5. But the harrowing image of its third period futility lingered...
Wednesday, 15--In response to concern among graduating seniors that the market's sustained downturn since Black Monday and deteriorating economic indicators will keep Wall Street firms from hiring in large numbers, President Bok issues an emergency Open Letter. "Somehow, Harvard men and women always manage to prevail," Bok writes. "Our alums at all the major brokerage houses tell me that their organizations will be able to find jobs for recipients of Harvard's great liberal arts education...