Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that sent their grandparents to the movie theaters to watch The Perils of Pauline: suspense. For from the moment that Julia appears on the screen, sleeves rolled above the elbow and blue denim apron about her waist, until her closing "Bon appetit," there is no telling what calamity may confront...
Granted that the demonstration was not well-organized and failed to present its case clearly, nevertheless its logic remains valid. The unexpected confrontation with McNamara and the resulting confusion over a "debate" sidetracked the basic rationale for the demonstration: to confront McNamara as a symbol of a war in which people are killed. The question of "mob" action raised by the Administration and McNamara has little relevance in comparison with the scale of violence that this man represents...
Further ploys, including lying about McNamara's schedule on Monday and the use of decoy cars, failed to frustrate our attempts to confront McNamara in public at Quincy House. They did, however, succeed in turning the planned silent confrontation into a mass of running people angry at the deception characteristic of both the government's Vietnam policy and the Institute's evasion of its responsibility to the public. In spite of this, and of McNamara's "tougher-than-thou" attitude, he suffered nothing worse than considerable, and deserved, embarrassment. Meanwhile rowdy students managed to create the sound and smell...
Thirdly, there is the matter of intellectual responsibility: the continuing obligation to analyze policy and insist on a confrontation of opposing viewpoints. It requires no particular political commitment to see that this Administration has been reluctant to confront its critics at any high intellectual level, or even to release some relevant facts. McNamara may not be the man best equipped to represent the current policy in a debate, but, once again, he is its most obvious symbol...
...these dicussions need not be confined to parietals. They could be extended to confront an issue that worries several Masters: in what direction is the House system being pushed by an accumulation of individual revisions, such as the parietal changes. The Masters have justifiable fears that the Houses are evolving willy-nilly, possibly in a direction no one has planned for or wants. But what the Masters must do is formulate a concept of the desirable development of the House system. What they should not do is block sensible reforms such as the parietal revisions because of vague fears that...