Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership. Debates lengthened and wandered from the issues at question, without the influential voice of a permanent dean to direct the discussions. Meanwhile attendance rose and fell erratically, occasionally dropping below the number necessary for a quorum. The low attendance became enough of a problem to compel the creation of rules requiring the presence at meetings of department chairmen, House masters and certain other faculty...
Bringing about progressive social change in capitalist America is certainly a difficult task, with institutional and political blocks, but certainly a prerequisite is this: the creation of a democratic majority seeking such changes. The sixties New Left (SDS and allies) saw this, and rejected democracy; campus liberalism despaired of gaining popular support among the masses of "reactionary" Americans. But in fact, the student movement never in any serious way directed itself towards the problems faced by the majority of the American people. Students talked, as we should have, about Vietnam--but we should have realized that it is impossible...
...creation of the Standing Committees to screen reports will increase the timeliness of the Visiting Committees' observations and will enable the board "to look for interrelationships" among reports dealing with the same general subject, Stevens said...
...official theory behind the cooling of America and the creation of domestic pacification is not hard to divine. The so called "Free World" is moving toward decent with its chief communist competitors, a process wherein every crisis will ostensibly be negotiated to a settlement rather than resolved by a bloodletting (no matter how distant from our shorelines). The architects of decent in both the national Executive and Congress--Free Worlders all believe rightly we hold the edge in this game, that we hold the chips (read: technology), the best and brightest players the most efficient organizations, and as always being...
...principled real estate speculators who intend to turn the area into a land of mini condominiums priced beyond the pocketbooks of most present residents. If you're real you'll understand the truth of this town/gown scenario and disregard the liberal profile of the city's universities; the creation of a few hundred units of housing for the poor and the elderly can only be seen as a token gesture for public relations, and not as a serious commitment to social progress...