Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good union also should create a political consciousness in its members by taking stands on a broad spectrum of questions which affect the workers, like civil rights and Vietnam. The union should educate its membership on these issues through film series, lectures and discussions...
...undergraduate courses are taught. They have reservations about graduate programs but no means to express them. In general, their influence in the University seems to them incommensurate with their numbers (Harvard has more than 900 TF's) and their importance. They hunger to be consulted on the issues that affect them, and they want some kind of recognition of their function as teachers...
...commercial development that would detract from the 'Memorial' aspect of the Library. To control development, urban renewal has been suggested. Thus far, the idea has been discussed by the city officials, but nothing official has been proposed. The questions raised by the Library complex are serious ones that fundamentally affect the University environment. The issues of development crystalized this year; the course of development will loom large through the next decade...
Questions like this seriously worry many members of the Faculty and Administration. How much will the influx of money threaten the autonomy of the university, or on a smaller scale, alter its operation? How much will federal funds affect the balance between different disciplines? But, though reservations are strong, it is clear that universities, Harvard included, want more federal money and that they will fight to get it: when President Johnson proposed that the NDEA program of student loans be substantially changed, universities yelled like hell, and, along with other affected interests, actually won a major modification in the President...
...standards, which will affect 1968 model cars, were developed from a preliminary list of 23 safety requirements issued by the safety agency chief, Dr. William Haddon Jr., early last December. At that time, Haddon invited the automakers' written comments-and got some public blasts as well. The rules, said Henry Ford, were "unreasonable, arbitrary and technically not feasible," and might even force some plants to close down. For most of last month, Detroit's experts argued their case in Haddon's Washington office. Even the State Department, sensitive to foreign charges that the standards would merely...