Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of the pack. If forced to devalue. France threatens a devaluation of such magnitude as to pull down other currencies with the franc. The U.S. dogmatically upholds the value of the dollar. The world has suffered three major monetary crises in the past year; yet nations still attempt patchwork measures that only temporarily ease their ills and then only at the expense of others...
...world," contended Writer Harold Cruse (The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual). Black Power, said Cruse, is a necessary step on the way to eventual integration; the Negro must develop his own identity before he can successfully join U.S. society as an equal. Cruse described Black Power as "a belated attempt to get an economic and political share of the American pie," but insisted that it is uniquely American and unrelated to European theories of class struggle. Although most participants denounced the idea of black separatism-John Oakes, editor of the New York Times editorial page, called it "impractical, unreal...
REMEMBER the second act of Peter Pan, when Tinkerbell is dying, and Peter turns to the audience and asks everyone to clap if they believe in fairies? The other day I read a critic who claimed it was all a dirty attempt to make the kiddies accept homosexuality. I was shocked. Not at the smut charge, mind you, but at the critic's inference that I believed in Peter and his boys at all. You just can't be brought up on television and still believe...
...political spectrum. Still, it seems likely that the conference would have been more successful if they had made a concerted effort to pull in the fringes. Shepherd Stone, the President of the International Association for Cultural Freedom which sponsored the conference, originally justified the choice of conferees as an attempt to insure "rational discussion." But one had an annoying sense that it was the style of discussion, as much as the size of the conference or its organization, that hamstrung its efforts to get at the substance of the issues...
...provided by other university departments. The military instructors, in their own fields, have professional education and experience comparable to most other faculty members in their respective fields. My point here is not whether they are justified. If the University and similar institutions feel otherwise, should they not attempt to have the law, regulations, and agreements changed through normal processes of legislation, negotiation and advocacy, rather than simply to "drop-out" or "cop-out" of a long-established, badly-needed federal program with which they may disagree in whole or in part...