Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more black art, music, literature and history courses. "We have had to learn the white man's way of thinking," argues Senior Reginald Thompkins. "He must learn the black man's way of thinking." The 500-member Black Student Union at San Francisco State has become so aloof that some white students have accused it of "reverse racism." The union's executive director, Senior Jimmy Garrett, 24, says defiantly: "We see ourselves as black people-exploited, oppressed. Some have masters' degrees, some are honor students-but we're still just niggers...
Sorry-wrong culprits! The real villains are surely (1) lazy, vacillating judges who stand aloof from life and decide cases by relying on technicalities cited from so-called relevant decisions instead of studying cases before them and dispensing justice on merit, and (2) the obsolete, phony argument that "ignorance of the law is no excuse...
...Grandly Aloof. Many Canadians demanded stronger words, but the language was tough enough. Through his aides, De Gaulle announced that the Canadian statement was itself "unacceptable," canceled his trip to Ottawa and flew back to Paris...
There, most newspapers were just as hard on him as the Canadian press and public had been. "The bad manners of General de Gaulle may shock," said the usually pro-Gaullist Paris Presse-L'lntransigeant. "They should not surprise." De Gaulle remained grandly aloof. "There is no De Gaulle problem," said a presidential spokesman, "but a Canadian problem." The government claimed that the Canadian visit was a total success since it focused world attention on a Canadian problem too long submerged and glossed over. "I could not have done otherwise," DeGaulle confided to an aide after his return...
...Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, traditionally one of the most aloof of U.S. denominations, is edging into the ecumenical century. At its biennial convention last week in New York City, the synod took some significant steps toward closer relations with other Christian churches...