Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alarmist of Chicken Little proportions to discern that bits of sky were falling on the Nixon Administration. The Haynsworth case, the Green Beret debacle, disarray in the Justice Department, the Republican loss in a congressional special election, bitter debate over Viet Nam-all at once all the news was bad. Yet somehow, Nixon seemed unconcerned and aloof from it all. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington Bureau chief, found that attitude perhaps as alarming as the events themselves in the most trying time Nixon has yet had in office, and offered this analysis...
...last year's carefully sanitized rites, the official speaker took the occasion to rail against Israel. Among those upset by the performance was a 33-year-old radio engineer named Boris Kochubiyevsky. He protested: "Here lies a part of the Jewish people." When a bystander said, "Too bad they didn't get the rest," Kochubiyevsky (whose parents died with the other Kiev Jews in 1941) began arguing with him. At one point, he complained that because he was a Jew "no one in this country considers me a fellow Russian." Kochubiyevsky should have limited himself to a silent...
...History will be glad to note that 41 of them actually supported the spirit of the resolution, and only three thought it was a bad idea to take even a personal stand against the war. But the gap between the 230 people who opposed the resolution at the Faculty meeting and the 44 who were left at convocation time hints at a few of the convocation's woes...
Calls for an informal vote on the war resolution-the original purpose of the convocation-came up several times. But they were regularly punctuated by speeches like White's and comments by a group of Faculty members who thought the whole idea was a bad...
...educational clearing house in order to facilitate and encourage greater flexibility and scope in the university curriculum. Anyone can lead or participate in a group on any topic he chooses. The New College will schedule and publicize the group. If people show up, great; if not, too bad...