Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lies in its teaching Hebrew and technical and mechanical skills and in making the immigrants feel Israeli," Eisenstadt said. "This has been so successful within the army that when immigrants complain of discrimination, they usually complain of everything but the army," he continued, even though, if they take a close look at the officers and the higher echelons of the Israeli armed forces they "would probably find that they are less proportionately represented than in most other places...
PAULING is the book's hero-at-a distance (when he dines with Pauling near the end of the book Watson proudly writes that Pauling prefers his youthful company to Crick's). But Watson's other scientist-characters are viewed from up close, and you can smell them. From the opening line ("I never saw Francis Crick in a modest mood"), Watson is critical of all his scientific colleagues at Cambridge and in London. But he is even more critical of the lesser scientists who were not his colleagues, and who form the bulk of the profession. "A goodly number...
...great achievement of The Sirens of Titan is to present us with a complexity, such as literature has never before offered us, that comes close to representing what we, at least in this century, understand to be the complexity of our own lives...
Dean Glimp did not say any of these things. Throughout the students' debate on whether to stay or leave the dean did not once speak to them. His sole statement was that closed Faculty meetings were traditional. It was a rule. Why did Dean Glimp say no more than this? Possibly because he, and the other members of the administration, felt that they hab been offered an ultimatum by the students. One imagines that the administration saw the very physical presence of the students in Paine Hall as un ultimatum directed at them. For the "power" of students...
...close of the meeting, the group decided to hold a rally in support of its demands on January 10, three days after the next scheduled Faculty meeting. It was agreed that a small group would picket and leaflet at the Faculty meeting, but that it would be impossible to organize a large rally by the time of the meeting...