Word: grinding
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Class Reunion is not the worst of the recent books on Harvard. Unlike Enrique Lopez, author of The Harvard Mystique, Jaffe has no axe to grind with Harvard. She's not wailing about the decay of the institutions of College Life, like Lansing Lamont in Campus Shock. Her stories read more smoothly than The Mem Hall Murders. In the end Harvard fares pretty well, because she uses it only for background: dropping names of buildings and alumni, reminiscing about sneaking a feel in an Eliot House room or necking on the steps of Briggs Hall. The Harvard name may sell...
...Polish people, but by the nature of the current struggle between Marxism and religion. Marx originally objected to religion in the belief that it encouraged men to ignore human suffering in the present in hopes of future spiritual salvation. He predicted that the forces of economic history would grind religion into oblivion. Then, somewhat perversely, his own theory became a secular faith. Before long it was actively contributing to human suffering, while encouraging men to endure the pain of the world against a future time when the state would wither away...
Wind. Don Quixote's nemesis could supply perhaps 2% of the nation's electric power by 1990. Modern windmills, which turn electric generators rather than grind grain, do not look anything like the revolving sails that dot Holland's countryside...
Opponents of the legislation, who come from a wide variety of backgrounds armed with a variety of different axes to grind, argue that a new Cabinet level department would simply add more fatty tissue to the federal blob. Some, like Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.). believe that funding lies at the heart of the system's problem and that "increased appropriations are not dependent upon the creation of a new department." Individuals like Rosenthal and organizations like the United States Catholic Conference--a major lobby for private school interests--argue that the legislation's proponents must prove...
...take the bus deep into Boston, to the bus station, to Dudley Station, when you head off for the summer to non-institutional life. Though euphemisms like "academic community" and "a community of learned men and women" cloak it. Harvard is, at the bottom line, an institution. "We grind you out like link-sausages," the professor says in Marathon Man. Look around you. Harvard is a singularly dangerous institution, at that...