Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hunt said that he felt the active role played by nuns and priests in the resistance movement was "a good thing. A lot of Middle America Roman Catholics will be puzzled and will be forced to confront the issue, Jerry Rubin they can forget about, but this is not so easy...
...been a Stone preoccupation for years. The latest Bi-Weekly notes archly that little-noticed congressional hearings reveal that $1.3 billion in Food for Peace funds has been used for military purposes in the past 17 years. That sets Stone off against military assistance: "It encourages the effort to confront political and economic problems with force. It exacerbates economic distress by imposing the burden of large armies, and intensifies rebellion by repression." He scorns military-assistance teams trained specially to get involved in the life of the country where they are stationed: "This is a distant echo of the white...
...conducting his own investigation into admissions policy concerning Jews. "Dr. Peterson is an honest man," Gold said. "I heard him and I believe him.However, I am concerned lest these allegations be true, and I am finding out. If my investigation shows that there have been appreciable drops, I will confront the people who say nothing has changed...
...think it is important for the Harvard community to confront the issue that underlies this discussion-should PBH receive support from the University at a minimal and reasonable level? The report of the subcommittee and the recommendations of the CSCR display an indifference both to the kinds of educational opportunities PBH offers and to the role it plays in a variety of settings outside the University. PBH has no policy of excluding or of discouraging undergraduates from volunteering. The contrary is the case. The subcommittee or members of the full Committee never sought to explain why our membership was highest...
...time when people have discovered with a sense of shock that the blacks who fill prisons (52% in Illinois) see themselves as "political victims" of a racist society. It is a time when many middle-class whites are forced to confront prisons for the first time, there to visit their own children, locked up for possession of pot or draft resistance. A time when many judges have finally begun to make personal ?and traumatic?inspections. After a single night at the Nevada State Prison, for example, 23 judges from all over the U.S. emerged "appalled at the homosexuality," shaken...