Word: prefering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone once asked the artist Giacometti if, were his studio on fire, he would first save his famous sculpture of a dog or a dog he kept as a pet. Giacometti said he would save the dog. Apparently, the majority of the Harvard Faculty would, in the same situation prefer to save the sculpture. For what the Faculty's failure to go out on strike with the students essentially means is that they would rather save University routine than join students in a full-time struggle against the systematic murder of Asians, black militants, and college students by our government...
...time for Yoko Ono to pack her bag and meet John (somewhere over Eurasia). (5) They symbolize it all. (6) The Beatles gave us an apple similar to that for which we were thrown out of Eden, and the problem, now, is to decide which one we prefer. (7) It all made Yoko and the Bearles very, very rich, richer than you or I will ever be, so much so that they have been elevated beyond the struggle with pain and "NO" which you and I shall always face. (8) This all made them great...
...your piece on the Burger court [April 13], you say that "strict constructionist" is an "ill-defined term," and then proceed to define it as referring to judges who "would prefer to have the court take a less active role . . . and keep hands off more decisions of other branches of Government...
...candidate is backed by a majority of Americans, wherever they are concentrated, he deserves election. Ideally, he should be the choice of both the people as a whole and of the various geographical regions. But if the two do not coincide, as sometimes happens, most Americans would probably prefer that majority prevail over geography. After all, the Governor of a state, argue the Bayh defenders, does not need to have a majority of the counties to win election; he needs only a majority of the people...
Exterminators. The guano bats of Mexico and the U.S. Southwest prefer caves, where their bodies carpet the walls and ceilings in quivering fur and leatherous membrane. Their droppings provide one of the world's richest fertilizers. The air in guano caves is stifling. Miss Leen recalls having once been overcome by the ammoniated atmosphere, but not before taking some unusual baby pictures...