Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Handlins' approach lacks is a look at the material basis of the "actualities" of colonial experience. There is little sense of social structure or social relations except as conveyed by ocassional anecdotes. If we learn about family, church and enterprise in the book, we learn about them in a haphazard way, in sharp contrast to the way, for example, Mary Ryan illuminates social and ideological change in her book Cradle of the Middle Class. The social structure was the framework in which the colonists developed their new society, and without fully reveling in it, the Handlins miss the mark...
...Handlins' approach lacks is a look at the material basis of the "actualities" of colonial experience. There is little sense of social structure or social relations except as conveyed by occasional anecdotes. If we learn about family, church and enterprise in the book, we learn about them in a haphazard way, in sharp contrast to the way, for example, Mary Ryan illuminates social and ideological change in her book Cradle of the Middle Class The social structure was the framework in which the colonists developed their new society, and without fully revealing it, the Handlins miss the mark...
Lieut. General Henri Namphy, president of the ruling National Council of Government, was philosophical about the disappointing turnout. Looking ahead to congressional and presidential elections scheduled for late 1987, he observed, "We are showing them the path so that next year everything will go normally." After the council's haphazard approach to last week's vote, Haitians remain dubious...
ALTHOUGH GOVERNMENT health officials called AIDS the nation's "number one priority" in public health in mid-1983, the federal government's response has been poorly coordinated and haphazard. Since 1982 the Reagan Administration has consistently attempted to cut congressional appropriations for AIDS--this, despite the fact that cases have been doubling every year...
What these examples show is a University leadership that refuses to listen to the criticisms or the suggestions of other members of the Harvard community. Instead, our leaders have become a little clique stumbling their way to haphazard solutions to problems that concern all of us. Rather than listen to the advice of students, faculty, alumni and staff, these leaders make unilateral decisions that harm the University, thereby keeping from the overall goal we all share--the advancement of knowledge...