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This caricature of the 19th century fighters for women's rights prevails. The vast majority of American history textbooks ignore the women's rights movement altogether. The few that portray them at all present them as barren old maids, or Carrie Nations and Lizzie Bordens rolled into one. Now during this so-called "second wave of and re-evaluate the actions of those who dedicated their lives to a struggle against an oppressive system that deprived them of their personhood...
Faculty members agreed or disagreed with memoranda, depending on their own point of view. And while Dean Rosovsky would not comment on the idea of his being "used," he did say: "I don't think these fairly portray Mr. Bok and his administration...
...Caramanlis won not so much because of his campaign but because of his performance as Greece's interim leader in the troubled months since his return. Seeking his fourth term as Premier (he previously served from 1955 to 1963), he ran a restrained campaign that sought to portray him as a statesman rather than a vote-hunting politician. He deliberately avoided taking a stand on two of the most sensitive issues: the punishment to be meted out to the former members of the military junta now in exile on the island of Kea and the question of restoring...
...image of the academic as a neutral searcher after truth, an image upon which the entire legitimacy of the American university and the American academic depends. The radicals'view of what an intellectual is challenges directly their senior Harvard colleagues' mystique and status as independent intellectuals. The radicals portray academics largely as the ideological offshoots of the classes they represent in society and not as impartial arbiters, standing above society who study it and come to more or less true and neutral judgments...
...Democratic machine and its "reform" Republican Mayor Kramer. Her narrative illustrates the incompetence and even cynicism which has marked reform politics in the big cities. The election and re-election of Paterson's reform mayor is far from the affirmation of the city's spirit that Norwood wants to portray...