Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though he favored confirmation. It was "unfortunate," he said, that Fortas accepted $15,000 for 18 hours of lecturing this summer at Washington's American University. "One would hope," Mansfield added gently, "that Mr. Fortas no less than any of the other members of the Court would henceforth bear these distinctions in mind." For Mr. Fortas, that advice may have come too late...
Utah is a peaceful state by any measure. Negroes make up three-fifths of 1% of Utah's population. Yet a Bear Lake resort owner declares that "the politicians ought to move the Negroes back to the South, where they will be happy." A Salt Lake City Mormon bishop says of youthful protesters: "They have been infected by drugs, and the drugs were supplied by Mexicans, Negroes or Chinese...
...Divinity School Faculty, for its part, was equally negligent. Last December, after eight Divinity School students had turned in their draft cards, the Faculty unanimously adopted a statement in opposition to the war in Vietnam and in support of draft resistance. "Accordingly," it read, "we are prepared to help bear the burdens of those who have been conscientiously led to extraordinary means of dissent." When Olimpieri took sanctuary on Sunday, Harvey G. Cox, associate professor of Church and Society, said he hoped the Faculty would "do something together." It didn...
Every Friday, for two hours, the section man will meet with Professor Cottle to discuss the class in terms of substance, administration, and teaching. These meetings will help section men bring all the resources of the group to bear upon intellectual or teaching problems as they arise. Such problems will be discussed and evaluated, and the combined experience of the group should go far in aiding the solution of problems, in revising techniques which were used, and heightening the sensitivity of the section men to their causes...
...called "presidential fatigue." Not all of them were literally too exhausted to carry on. Most emphasized that the satisfactions they found in leading intellectual centers of action and argument outweighed any personal agony. But all agreed that the pressures on campus presidents are too much for one man to bear for long. Last week in interviews with TIME correspondents, a number of present and former academic leaders discussed the strains-and satisfactions-of their jobs. Had they all been in one room, the dialogue of their complaints might have sounded like this...