Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yiddish-speaking boy in a non-Jewish neighborhood of Queens, where other kids called him a "Christ-killer." Once they even tied a rope around his neck and tried to hang him. At the University of Illinois, he bicycled six miles daily to the campus because, he claims, closer quarters were all "listed for WASPS, right there in the official university housing bureau." Looking back, it seems almost inevitable that he became a political activist. As chairman of the Socialist Study Club at Illinois, Shanker devoted his extracurricular time to increasing attendance at club functions from an average...
...headed by the Minister of Education. This central authority will be confined to general planning for the system, auditing the budgets of each school, and establishing national standards for degrees in such fields as medicine, law and engineering. The new law also abolishes lifetime university chairs. To stimulate closer relations with students, professors will be required to live in the towns in which they teach, eliminating the common practice of faculty commuting. Students also won one of last spring's most insistent demands: the right to hold political meetings on campus. But the law stipulates that these must...
...think you even miss the role CIA analysts have played in Vietnam. From what I gather from friends in Washington, the CIA analysts come closer than anyone else to getting our government to see the absurdity of the Vietnam policy. Would these men have contributed more to themselves, to policy, to the government if they had left government service...
...only of mass audience and TV sales. Contemporary social phenomena, prevented from developing in peace, are instantly exploited by a Hollywood desperate to be the first on the marketing bandwagon. Thus Hollywood supplies a hippie to the curious netherworld between San Francisco and New York--a hippie one step closer to reality than John Wayne's faceless chattering Vietcong, but already a stock figure for a director to plug into any context available...
Although unwilling to comment specifically on Norr's candidacy, White last week said that "the voice of a recent graduate could be...enormously useful. The closer we get to undergraduates the better off we'll be." Richardson agreed that "it is a good idea to have the board represent the whole range of alumni in terms of classes...