Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among black students there is a strong and definite, indeed presumably unanimous, desire for the creation of a social and cultural center for black students. Such a center is conceived as something of a counter-part of Hillel House, the Newman Center, or the International Center. Such a center would provide the black students opportunities different from, but in addition to, the more general social and cultural life of the College, and of the Houses...
...have become jaded to Hillel House or the Newman Center. But the committee presents a convincing case for the creation of a separate black cultural center. Harvard's sanguine policy of integrating black students into the white environment--like integrating Nebraskans into the Eastern environment--may often be counter-productive...
Four Harvard professors are charter sponsors of University Centers for Rational Alternatives (UCRA), seeking to counter campus extremists...
...curbs overzealous or arrogant bureaucrats. Americans might follow this example; create ombudsmen at all levels of government, who will help them fight city hall. City hall, wherever it is, will resist, but the effort must be made. One solution would be to form public-interest pressure groups to counter the lobbies and private-interest groups that inevitably will be out for their own game. Americans have not watched their elected representatives closely enough or set standards for them that are half as high as they should be. In the end, the truism cannot be denied: People get the kind...
...Guards spat on them at the Peking airport and made them crawl under portraits of Mao Tse-tung; now these Soviet citizens are returning. A recent complaint to India over an attack on the Chinese embassy in New Delhi was stern but matter-of-fact, and there was no counter-demonstration in Peking-in stark contrast to 1967, when at least twelve foreign embassies were besieged by Red Guards at one time or another. There is also evidence that overseas Chinese communities, most notably in Hong Kong and in Burma, have been quietly told to go easy on the kind...