Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women have become much more an accepted part of the University rather than an appendage." The eventual end of the quota system made women full-fledged members of the Harvard community, and at the same time provided them unprecedented freedom to interact responsibly with Harvard men. This stands in sharp contrast to the parietal system, where women lived in a structure designed to check up on their social lives. As Rosenblum says, "It was just like high school...
...peaceful demonstration was in sharp contrast to the attempted occupation of the Seabrook nuclear power plan three weeks ago, when demonstrators tried to take down fences with wire cutters and police responded with mace, tear gas, police dogs and firehoses. "This had different aims and a different philosophy," one protester said
...said that he and Dayan "parted in friendship and warmth," planned to take over the Foreign Ministry himself, at least for the time being. (A logical replacement, Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin, is in the hospital after suffering a heart attack.) But Dayan's departure is a sharp blow to the whole political future of the Begin regime. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres immediately called for Begin himself to resign and hold new elections. Although Begin is highly unlikely to take that course, his position is seriously weakened. Not only does Dayan have a considerable personal following, but other recent...
Podhoretz refused to yield. He enlisted his Commentary contributors fo an all-out crusade: among them, Nathan Glazer, Pat Moynihan, Michael Novak, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Samuel McCracken, James Q. Wilson, Bayard Rustin, Joseph W. Bishop and Podhoretz's wife Midge Decter. With sharp logic and biting wit, they drew considerable blood as they assailed radicalism on all fronts: its elitism, coercive utopianism, contempt for the common American, penchant for Government intervention, tolerance of Communist totalitarianism and its fatuous call for revolution. Intellectually at any rate, they soon had their adversaries on the run; many of the most voluble leftists...
...peaceful approach is in sharp contrast to the Seabrook occupation attempt three weeks ago, when demonstrators with wire-cutters were repelled by Mace-and-tear-gas-wielding police and national guard...