Word: cherishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unrealism still exists in abundance on both sides of the conflict. The Israelis cherish the notion that, left alone by the big powers, they
...that the colleges are the failures. The reaction is natural; white administrators simply failed to foresee it. For lower-class Negroes, whose whole lives have been spent in black ghettos, the sudden move to white campuses often produces cultural shock. Everything is so white. How can a slum Negro cherish the glories of Greek culture, for example, while his sister supports him by ironing The Man's shirts? Even middle-class Negroes are often upset. Says Byron Merrit, a political science major at Syracuse University: "If white education is increasingly 'irrelevant' for whites, what...
THERE IS so little room for life in this world. Even the Civil Aeronautics Board should cherish it, but it doesn't. The CAB is threatening to end the Youth Fare privileges for travellers from ages 12 to 21. The System is trying to squeeze the life from air travel to the great silver birds can fly in peace...
...such stage of growth, particularly when events are moving so fast that we have seen anywhere between three and eight "generations" of radicals since 1959 alone is to miss all possibility of comprehension. Eventually, you may want to draw the line against "disruptive" radicalism, but if you cherish any hope that the university, in Dean Ford's words, will "emerge from this time of troubles" with its values and structure in no way "twisted or permanently damaged" then you better ask yourself who you are walling out, before you shut yourself...
...cherish the sanctity of the spoken word as does Charles de Gaulle, especially when he has spoken it himself. Three weeks ago, when an exodus of francs began to threaten the stability of France's currency, De Gaulle loftily dismissed the possibility of the franc's devaluation as "the worst absurdity." Almost no one believed him. Speculation against the franc continued to mount until it neared crisis proportions, threatening to unbalance the entire, delicate mobile of the Western monetary system. The money managers and bankers of Europe and the U.S. assembled in Bonn in an emergency session...