Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOOL KILLER and THE BOYS OF PAUL STREET. In The Fool Killer, a runaway twelve-year-old orphan comes to the beginning of maturity through a series of picaresque adventures. The call to action in The Boys of Paul Street is a dispute over the last vacant lot in town. Both films are tragicomedies that are focused on -and for-youth...
...original timetable. Instead, the Administration provided a Dixie-wide loophole by allowing districts with "extreme and valid reasons" to postpone integration beyond that date, with no firm deadline for eventual compliance. Finch loyally rationalized that the Administration's new policy could actually prove stronger, since it would call for a nationwide rather than a regional approach to integration, but few liberal educators were convinced...
...into strong opposition from the teachers themselves, many of whom are frankly terrified at the prospect of working in violence-plagued ghetto schools. Redmond's policy collapsed when Mayor Richard Daley-who in 1965 thawed the HEW-imposed freeze on federal funds to Chicago schools with a call to Lyndon Johnson-threw his support behind the teachers' union...
Unlike other college presidents, Hayakawa-devised a hard-line strategy of keeping police power on the campus at all times. His predecessors had called in the police on occasion, but during the height of the strike Hayakawa deployed as many as 600 police on campus or on call nearby. "The revolutionaries said they would destroy the college," he explained in testimony before a Senate subcommittee. "I said they would not. We had police available before trouble started, instead of waiting for the situation to get out of hand...
...triumph over rude nature, and turn it upside down. In this position Crusoe's diligence, rationality, racial pride and Christian ethics-the very qualities that in Defoe's handling ensured Crusoe's survival-get lost while Crusoe accepts the "primitive" values of his black manservant. Call the book Friday to make the irony unmistakable. So much for Western civilization...