Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Amid the moral uproar surrounding the Klitgaard report, the Crimson has provided us with an article that surely dwarfs Klitgaard in arrogance, specious argument, and even racism--Selwyn Cudjoe's "Ideological Trick-Bag." This quasi-Marxist analysis pales in comparison with the sober and informed exchange between Carl Gershman and Dr. Kenneth Clark it sets out to condemn...
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...think Harvard is ready not to fall back on technical underutilization as an argument," another administrator says, explaining that departments should not be satisfied simply to have women on their senior Faculty in proportions commensurate with their numbers in the national pools. "I'm hoping we can get to the point where we're not looking so much at numbers," she added...
Like any good rock band, the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin) stroked their audience with familiar stuff: the Argument Clinic, the Pet Shop (received with a roar of recognition and approval, their Greatest Hit, as it were), Nudge-Nudge, the Travel Agency, the Four Yorkshiremen, all of them done handily, wittily--and almost exactly like their records and TV shows. There were a few miscued lines, and Cleese and Palin broke up unexpectedly at the end of the Pet Shop routine, but most of the evening was predictable. Their new material...
Hawkins, 53, drew sharp distinctions to Gunter, 46, on social issues. She called for a constitutional amendment to allow prayers in school; Gunter opposed it. He supported ERA; she did not. There was no argument over the candidates' support of Israel, a critical issue for Florida's sizable Jewish population. Gunter, who is a Baptist, reminded voters that he had met his wife Teresa in Jerusalem. Hawkins, a Mormon, told members of a synagogue: "There are twelve tribes of Israel, and the Mormons happen to be one of them. That's my belief." Hawkins was undoubtedly helped...