Word: blum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credibility of a President may well suffer, notes Yale Historian John Blum, when he asks Americans to switch their image of China-virtually from Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan-almost overnight. When a leader seems to turn against his own once passionately stated views, he may not be taken too seriously when he adopts an emphatic new stance; that, after all, may also soon change. Yet it is also refreshing and reassuring to find that world leaders are proving flexible enough to change their attitudes toward each other at a time when change in so many other spheres of life...
However, he said, the paragraph to which Isaac's referred came largely from the report on the grievances to the Corporation by two of its members. John M. Blum '43 and Hugh Catkins '43. "It isn't easy to sort out who initiated what action and when," Kilbridge said. "There were many people involved--President Pussy, members of the Visiting Committee, faculty members, students and others--who were trying to effect change, and there was in the planning department this entrenched group. We've all been defendants from the start...
Adams House has also seen the beginnings of feminist activism. Earlier this year Phyllis Blum, assistant senior tutor in the House presided over a meeting of Adams women. Blum said there seems to be less dissatisfaction among women now than there was last year. She attributes the easing of strains to the increased number of women...
...Corporation decided in a meeting last November that the professor's grievances were serious enough to warrant further inquiry, and it established a two-man committee of Calkins and Blum to hear the case...
...Blum and Calkins will probably report to the entire Corporation in December, at which time the Corporation will decide how to release its findings...