Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DECEPTIVE atmosphere pervades Washington whenever one Administration gives way to another. Power seems to ebb steadily until the incumbents appear to be little more than caretakers. Yet, until Jan. 20, Johnson and his lieutenants retain considerable authority. By exercising it, the Democrats can create commitments-and problems -that will affect Richard Nixon for months or perhaps years to come...
Moynihan, a liberal who has no qualms about attacking liberal shibboleths, titles his book Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding-a takeoff on the phrase "maximum feasible participation," which refers to the goal of involving the poor in planning and executing the programs that are to affect them. The phrase was especially applicable to the "community action" projects that were supposed to become the centerpiece of the whole anti-poverty effort. The trouble was, says Moynihan, that the Government never really comprehended what community action was all about and "did not know what it was doing...
...foreign policy under the Nixon Administration, the Soviet Union showed obvious concern about the possible new thrusts of American intentions. In one capital after another, Russian diplomats anxiously sought out their U.S. counterparts in informal attempts to learn how the policies and personalities of the new Administration may affect relations between the world's two superpowers. On the official level, Moscow has adopted a cautious wait-and-see attitude toward President-elect Nixon, despite his reputation there as a hardliner. As a West German diplomat noted: "For Khrushchev, Nixon was the epitome of the professional antiCommunist. But his successors...
...changes that Ethos seeks in Wellesley are so specific that they can be expressed in quantitative terms. "The thing that is important to me," Nancy Gist said, "is giving more black students a chance at higher education so they can affect change where its needed--in the big bad world...
Henry M. Hart Jr. '26, Dane Professor of Law said that changes in the academic program would require from five to ten years to implement, even after the student-faculty committees began to work on them in earnest. "Changes would therefore not affect the current law school classes at all," Hart said...