Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portrayal of life in the Negro ghetto. Many of the complaints heard at the Roxbury-North Dorchester meeting were reiterated at the South End meeting. Feelings of alienation, bitterness, discouragement, and hopelessness were evident in the statements of almost every person. The ghetto residents told the Committee of their constant struggle against the damaging effects of both poverty and prejudice...
...several months now, the noise of heavy machinery has tormented students living in the northern section of the Yard. Last spring many students in that area complained that they were unable to study or to sleep because of the constant banging and pounding...
Perhaps his finest talent was, in the words of a former Law School associate, "his very great sensitivity to the interrelation of political and military action." McNaughton waged a constant battle to keep military activity under control...
When he first joined the Kennedy Administration in 1961, his attitudes were not generally popular in Washington. Yet he remained constant to his ideal. As Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, as the Pentagon's chief representative on the nuclear test-ban team to Moscow, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, he always sought the proportioned response--the wide range of political alternatives to military pressure, where possible. He exerted beneficial and imaginative influence over Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara...
...Brother will be everywhere. The technology of eavesdropping will have improved so much, speculates University of Chicago Law Professor Harry Kalven Jr., that "it will be possible to place a man under constant surveillance without his ever becoming aware of it." The infringement of privacy by employers, competitors, social-science researchers and government may be so complete that new institutions, similar to religious retreats, will spring up. "It may be a final ironic commentary on how bad things have become by 2000," writes Kalven, "when someone will make a fortune merely by providing, on a monthly, weekly, daily, or even...