Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...problems, or even see that the potholes in Mass Ave are fixed. He will spend his term instead trying to find the least damaging cuts in services--which is more important, teen centers or Meals on Wheels? Do we put 35 kids in each class or abolish the rent control board? Increasingly, conventional politics will become an irrelevant profession, for without voters agreeing to increases in the current levels of taxation, little new can be done. And so young men and women not yet wedded to the profession will gradually drift out of the political arena. That they will take...
...football is a game of controlled mayhem, Bob Woolway has the mayhem under control. In his three years on the Harvard varsity, the senior linebacker and defensive play-caller has earned a reputation as one of the Ivy League's most effective, durable, and intelligent defenders...
...There's no way you can teach poise," says Harvard defensive coordinator George Clemens. "Bob just has it. Always has." Woolway exudes self-control and controls his teammates; his field presence-combined with his injury-defying omnipresence--have steered the Crimson away from more than a few potential disasters in three years...
Just as importantly, we must insist that we are not members of the bourgeois class because we do not control any of the means of production in this country. After all, as Mary Ann Berry, the former U.S. Commissioner of Health, Welfare, and Education, pointed out in her address at Harvard University on Martin Luther King's birthday, all those so-called Black bourgeoisie are only two pay-checks away from the now exalted Black underclass...
Together, we must seek a better overstandingof our oppressed condition. We must recognize that the chief weapon in the hands of the white bourgeois class is that of its ideology which is used to control and to manipulate our people. The trick of the ruling white class, however, is to make these ideas appear as though they were as natural as any law of physical nature. Therefore, if the Black underclass can't make it in the country, it is the Black bourgeoisie who is responsible for their failure...