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...such problem is academic freedom. Reagan insisted that in this area all those with an interest in public universities-teachers, students, taxpayers, administrators and elected officials have legitimate and sometimes conflicting claims that "must be reconciled within a framework of mutual understanding and compromise." He deplored equally the ignorant taxpayer who sneers at "newfangled" courses and the student who would blithely eliminate all the required courses and grades, making "education a kind of four-year smorgasbord." Reagan also warned against educators who deny that there are any absolutes, "who see no black and white of right or wrong but just...
...King's obstinacy and his fierce opposition to the parliamentary majority which under the leadership of G. Papandreou demanded nothing more than the return of the Army to strict professionalism, adherence of the King to his constitutional obligations and implementation of a program of socio-economic development in the framework of a free enterprise system. The vast majority of Greeks still support these principles. Under a "guided democracy," it may take some time until they organize themselves into an effective majority. But they will come back, Should, then, another Junta be called upon to "save" Greece and restore stability...
...With the framework of an insurrection and trial, it would have been easy for Styron to produce an intense novel that maintained a delirious pitch throughout. What he has done, however, is to create imaginative visions and recollectons within the mind of the doomed slave and yet present the poignancy of the recent massacres and the impending execution. Styron is a great stylist and a perfectionist, but he certainly is not guilty of trying to present a cosmic view of the South or the declining prosperity of Virginia Tidewater. Criticisms of Styron's use of Nat's memory to describe...
Thus, these students, who felt themselves in somewhat disadvantaged positions found points of strength in group solidarity: they are now better able to interact with the larger college community by defining, both as a group and as individauls, the terms on which they will participate in the total campus framework...
...climb quickly to a conclusion. He prefers, like a mountaineer intent upon a peak, to take the more careful, circuitous route so that he can be surer of his ground. He loves the facts, detests disarray and imprecision, and spends his working hours trying to define life within a framework of the law. He is not born this way; it takes a law school to turn the necessary bent of mind. And for thousands of hopeful lawyers, the pre-eminent place to be trained is, and has always been, Harvard Law School...