Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soliven asserted that the people of Laos have no common heritage and that the many tribes which make up "what is known as Laos" do not even realize that they belong to the same country. This has complicated the problem of trying to unite the Laotian people into a cogent fighting unit capable of resisting the advancing communists...
Eble thinks improvement would accrue from more vigorously active faculty senates, from which all members of the administration are barred; and he would like a different system of election to such senates. There appeared, apparently too late for recognition in this book, a cogent article by Burton R. Clark, "Faculty Authority" (winter 1961 issue of the AAUP Bulletin), which demonstrates that a direct correlation exists between the academic quality of colleges and the amount of authority exercised by the faculties...
...layman will not find interesting vignettes or case studies about the intriguing and difficult task of running a university. And faculties already know everything there is to know about running a university. Strangely, trustees of educational institutions can profit most from Dodd's study. In addition to cogent advice on their own conduct and their relationship with the president, trustees will find new insights into the character of the college president. Also, presidential aspirants may find words of wisdom in this little handbook...
...Gibson: "Throughout the whole turmoil, the irrelevance of the churches to the situation was evident. No statement on the affair came from the council of churches. Ministers confessed the sense of confusion they felt." Counting himself among those who neglected Pittsfield, Gibson says: "Now is the time when a cogent word on the whole problem of corporate moral responsibility needs to be spoken...
...constitutional convention in 1787, James Madison was a quiet champion of a strong central government. His voluminous notes were by far the best record taken of the convention. When some states balked at ratifying the Constitution, Madison helped Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in writing some of the most cogent political propaganda in U.S. history-the anonymous articles called the Federalist papers...