Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...protesters did not attempt to occupy University Hall. Instead, in a move planned by rally organizers, they filed through while chanting, "The people united will never be defeated." An unidentified official who attempted to bar the entrance was brushed aside. Doors to the building, normally open, were locked after the protesters left...
...particular, the study was not commissioned to question our policy of recruiting significant numbers of minority students--a policy which I helped to initiate at the Law School more than fifteen years ago, which I have publicly defended on numerous occasions, and which I continue firmly to support. Instead, the study was designed to review the literature and the data on the various methods, such as testing and interviewing, used to evaluate all students in order to inform interested persons at Harvard about what is known concerning the reliability of these methods and to communicate any useful insights and innovations...
MILLER'S APOLOGIA extends throughout the book. With Vietnam Miller never explores the careful coverup of the war's financing; instead he marshals statements from Johnson advisers explaining how they "anguished" over the decisions to escalate the war. The chapter on Vietnam is particularly frustrating, for Miller presents a few fascinating insights and then fails to elaborate on them. Former aide Harry MacPherson tells how Johnson was completely oblivious to the demands and concerns of the militant left, how he didn't even understand them. According to MacPherson Johnson was always asking. "What in the world do they want...
...master politician, after so many years of being attuned to the subtleties of electoral opinion, suddenly lost touch with the nation's growing disillusionment over the war. Miller throws the MacPherson interview out as if it were one more bit of gossip, just another interview, instead of using it as a focal point to organize some interpretation of Johnson's failures...
Murphy went into the grueling training camp season with the motto, "No pain, no gain"--a motto he says he continues to live by. His running was erratic, but instead of getting discouraged, Murphy kept trying harder...