Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This kind of strong anti-war action was neatly avoided by the rank-in-class proposal. The Shenton-Hovde proposal was decidedly not an explicit attack on the war in Vietnam, and it did not, as did Harvard's faculty debates, directly confront 2-S. One can deduce from a comparison of the two debates that a university faculty can more easily justify taking a stand on rank-in-class than on 2-S or the war. Withholding rank-in-class seems within the rightful realm of faculty consideration because, as Shenton told the Spectator, it is an attempt...
...asked that McNamara confront critics of U.S. Vietnam policy in a public meeting. The Institute refused, and SDS organized a demonstration which entrapped the Secretary on Mill St. outside of Quincy House. Police had to clear a path through students for McNamara to leave...
...Kennedy has erred in refusing to confront the manuscript until now. She will have to read the book and undoubtedly withhold her approval. But she should never have given the impression that the approval of her late husband's friends was tantamount to a family imprimatur. Look Magazine, which will serialize the book in January, has reportedly started its presses rolling -- and if the injunction Mrs. Kennedy seeks is granted, it stands to lose a great deal of money. The bitterness and rumors this controversy has engendered could have easily been avoided if the family had taken the direct interest...
Perhaps the most interesting cases are those which involve the law. Two problems confront the Board in this area--relations with the local courts and, more generally, the extent of Univerity control over the students...
...understanding of his own spiritual doubts and fears, Lemercier asked the members of his community if they would volunteer for a series of twice-weekly group-therapy sessions. To work with Dr. Quevedo, Lemercier deliberately selected a woman psychiatrist, Argentinian Frida Zmud, so that the monks would have to confront the problems of sexuality. For some, sex was indeed a problem, and many of those who left St. Mary's have since married. But Lemercier believes that the ones who stayed came out of the therapy sessions with purified faith, a new creativity of spirit, and improved physical health...