Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1974, when U.S. District Judge John Garrity issued his court order mandating the desegration of the Boston and Springfield school systems, bused students returning to their classes in the fall have met the hostility of parents unalterably opposed to their presence, assaults from their peers, and the apparent apathy of elected officials. Kevin White's administration has apparently accepted a certain level of violence as the price to pay to avoid substantive action to solve Boston's racial problems. Five years after Garrity's order was promulgated, students, parents and politicians alike have been forced to accept the inevitability...
Garrity's order to desegrate the schools became public on June 21, 1974. At that time, close to six million dollars in federal funds had been withheld from Springfield and Boston for over a year, following the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that found both cities guilty of violations of the U.S. Civil Rights Act. Throughout the remainder of the summer, education administrators, teachers, and police officials rushed to prepare to bus 20,000 Bostonians and 4100 Springfield residents...
...GOVERNMENT has finally dropped its six-month long effort to suppress Howard Morland's "The H-Bomb Secret," and the article will appear in The Progressive's next issue. It's about time. The court based its prior restraint injunction on specious "national security" grounds; as the government has admitted, and as Morland had contended all along, the supposedly "secret restricted" information contained in the article had been available to the public from a variety of unclassified sources, including several public libraries, scientific journals and the current edition of the Encyclopedia Americana...
...ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse." In New England, in order to prevent such a mistake, one of the most eminent citizens of the Colony, The Honorable Paul Dudley (A.B. 1690), Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, Overseer of Harvard College, Fellow of the Royal Society, left to the President and Fellows of the college a bequest of 133 pounds, 6 shillings, and 8 pence for the establishment of a series of annual lectures to be known as the Dudleian Lectures...
...freshman resident of Apley Court said yesterday nine freshmen now live in the building...