Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...verbal rough-housing may seem a flight from even the possibility of self-recognition. His own view of the constant alteration of point-of-view is that it is the most direct form of personal education. "What else can you mean by consciousness expanding," he asks, "than the attempt to comprehend all the life styles in an age?" This is his short-hand way of expressing the old desire for transcendance. A man who is noting, after all, is potentially everything. "Studying the Puritans or watching you try to figure me out, Sable," he once said, " are just ways...
...advertisement in question ("Samuel Huntington--Crime: Genocide") was a mistake. It contained "malicious and untrue" information, and we said as much in a retraction box printed twice. However, the important point is that the ad was a mistake--and not a deliberate attempt by CRIMSON to hide behind an anonymous ad while slandering a professor. The implication offered by the News Office and Mr. Jensen that CRIMSON members placed the ad is as irresponsible and untrue as the ad itself...
...morning. Both the hundred or so demonstrators at the time and the several hundred later in the Faculty Room, where all matters were decided by democratic debate and votes, overwhelmingly agreed with those who showed such political clear-headedness and personal courage at a difficult moment. The Committee's attempt to portray them as manipulative and morally depraved is a vicious appeal to American stereotypes of communists...
Occasions may arise that may require the appropriate University authorities to use other proper means to control or terminate unacceptable activities. It is the sense of the Faculty that the appropriate authorities should attempt whenever possible to deal such occasions through the disciplinary measures described in the preceding paragraphs. The Faculty also urges that appropriate University authorities consult with representative student and faculty bodies to the maximum extent practicable in devising and implementing ways to invoke other proper means of control...
...been argued that aiding low-income students should be viewed as an attempt by "the Establishment" to co-opt the lower classes. Many low-income students, particularly whites, accept their educational opportunities for a higher rung on the status ladder with gratitude and docility...