Word: comments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, and taught English at the University of Chicago before he joined S.F. State's English department in 1955. He has taken outspoken stands on such diverse issues as all-digit telephone dialing (against), advertising ("venal poetry") and the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley (against). In a comment that clearly foretold his attitude toward dissenters at S.F. State, Hayakawa castigated Berkeley's promoters of Free Speech. They defy authority, he complained, "yet when punitive action is threatened they holler for amnesty. They want to be martyrs without martyrdom...
...whites who do not apply to blacks the same standard of morality and behavior they apply to whites," he said. "This is an attitude of moral conde scension that every self-respecting Negro has a right to resent-and does resent." As a semanticist, Hayakawa said, he wished to comment on "the intellectually slovenly habit, now popular among whites as well as blacks, of denouncing as racist those who oppose or are critical of any Negro tactic or demand...
Nixon spokesmen would not confirm that a definite offer of a position had been made. Sources outside the Nixon camp said that overtures had been made but that Kissinger had made no final decision. Kissinger could not be reached for comment...
...seminar represents the first occasion in recent history when foreign scholars have been invited to the U.S. to comment on an internal problem...
...that the rights of the poor and ignorant are protected-Friendly would give an added safeguard against the third degree. He suggests that all questioning at the police station take place before a magistrate. If the man refuses to answer, Friendly's amendment would permit the prosecution to comment on that fact at the trial...