Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even though it unmistakably evoked the old, unpleasant atmosphere of the cold war, such frank talk perhaps helped to clarify the new political realities in Europe. Certainly the edgy West Germans were measurably relieved by Rusk's reassurances. The situation in Central Europe cooled enough for the Austrians, who had been troubled by the Soviet troop build-up in neighboring Czechoslovakia, to go ahead with plans to demobilize 11,000 Austrian army draftees whose training period had been extended as a result of the Soviet-made crisis...
...failing of Promises, Promises is most evident, perhaps, when Miss O'Hara is called on to attempt suicide, one of the central events of the story. After singing a perfectly splendid song called "Whoever You Are," she reaches for the sleeping pills, a spot concentrates on them, and the scene fades out. But neither her dialogue nor her performance has justified this action: her relationship with Sheldrake, their break-up, and her despair are simply not convincing. And if the most serious action--the pivotal action--of the plot doesn't work, then the plot as a whole...
...Senate and the division of the professors and other teachers into three or four faculties--quite apart from the professional schools--where other universities have a single Faculty of Arts and Sciences, apparently discourages faculty participation in the formulation of University policy and the improvement of student life. The central Administration to which the full burden of the quality of student life is left is not equipped for the duty. Far too few members of the University family are closely involved, outside the classroom, in the constant informal enterprises and discussions by which the values of an academic community...
...anything, Thornberry's case is more susceptible to charges of cronyism than Fortas's. In 1948, when Johnson joined the Senate, Thornberry became Congressman in Johnson's place. For fifteen years, until he retired to accept a District Judgeship in late 1963, Thornberry held the central Texas seat, and remained a good domino-playing friend of Johnson's. As a Senator, and later as Vice-President, Johnson often referred to him as "my congressman...
...decentralization came from parents asking control of their children's schools. Though phrased in administrative terms, the issue of community control in education is essentially racial in character. Frustrated by the failures of core city school systems and their unresponsiveness to demands for change, black parents no longer regard central school authorities as legitimate. The School Committee got an undiluted taste of the explosiveness of the issue in early September when blacks boycotted the Gibson elementary school in Dorchester. The boycott cut attendance in half for ten days when many black students attended a "liberation school" in a nearby neighborhood...