Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...level of debate, "Salty" more and more identified with the Nixon Administration. On Vietnam or ABM or tax policy, he found himself weakly deferring to whatever Nixon was saying at the moment. He failed to develop a coherent counterattack, even with a crude theme like "law-and-order." His attempt to avoid debate gave Harrington one more issue to exploit...
...College will attempt to merge the intellectual with the personal and communal search for values. Ideally, we hope to create a university which is an independent critic of society. That's a far cry, of course, from what the university is now: a center for training and consultation to render more efficient the bureaucracies and professions which run American society...
...however, I have had no contact with such a group or any of its members. Consequently, I was surprised to learn that a document proposing a faculty committee on the expression of political opinion and bearing my name was being discussed and published in part in the CRIMSON. Any attempt to institutionalize political discussion in the faculty seems to me unwise and uncalled...
...join in discussing the problem was quickly escalated into the supporting of a detailed proposal without my being consulted may have been due to some kind of misunderstanding. But then to find reported in the Saturday Boston Globe that I had "switched twice" suggested that perhaps a more deliberate attempt to misrepresent my position was involved. While I am not at all adverse to changing my position as a political process unfolds and gives cause, this simply has not occurred in this instance-neither once nor twice...
...some extent the government's campaign to develop revolutionary dedication among the workers is an attempt to make a virtue of necessity. As part of the Revolutionary Offensive Castro wants to launch Cuba on the way towards economic development. Cuba is to build 24,000 miles of roads by 1975, increase its cultivated land by 65 percent in the next ten years and complete the mechanization of the sugar industry...