Word: subverting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also says much about Soloveitchik's own demons: for all of his confidence in the intellectual and psychological validity of his tradition, there seems little doubt that he worries about, and perhaps even fears, the cultural forces that relentlessly threaten to subvert it. -ByRichard N. Ostling...
...administer the elections. He also permitted them and the tiny Communist Party to buy commercial time on the air waves. Even the Communist newspaper Al Bayane conceded that the campaign "was the cleanest that has ever been seen." The King has described his overall strategy: "I am going to subvert by democratic means people's natural instincts toward anarchy...
...Cambridge" referendum, which would have sent at best an ambiguous message about the nuclear arms race while clamping down on traditional university norms of free and open inquiry. And several months later, members of the Right showed, not surprisingly, that the Left had no monopoly on improper attempts to subvert free and open inquiry. Harvard and other universities that get money from the Pentagon for research have been chafing under the Reagan Administration's efforts to censor the publication of unclassified research sponsored by the Defense Department...
...more significant, Hughes announced that the administration wants to head off a Nicaraguan attempt to use the World Court as a forum for "anti-American propaganda." Hughes didn't mention what that propaganda might be, but you can assume it would include the charge that we are trying to subvert their government and mine their harbors. This second argument exposes the cynical, anti-democratic side of the administration. No argument was made defending the administration position on legal or moral grounds. And President Reagan's silence on the issue has sent this message: I am the bully, thus...
There are several questions which potential deans should have to answer about student life before gaining power. Just as Rosovsky developed the Core Curriculum, his successor will still to deal with the serious objections to that system, and to the recent attempts to subvert its principles by stuffing the Core with every conceivable survey course. Rosovsky has only recently begun to emphasize the quality of teaching--from professors down to teaching fellows--and the next dean should decide from the start how much time he will take from internal Faculty disputes devote to classroom concerns, and to what extent...