Word: dame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEODORE M. HESBURGH President University of Notre Dame Notre Dame...
...THEODORE M. HESBURGH, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME. Father Hesburgh brought a new approach to campus violence in February when he issued a carefully thought-out set of rules for handling demonstrators. His eight| page letter put students on notice that persons disrupting the campus would be warned, "given 15 minutes of meditation," then suspended if they did not desist. Hesburgh's initiative, which he took only after sounding out faculty, alumni and student groups, brought him quantities of favorable mail, including a letter from President Nixon that warmly endorsed his "forthright stand...
...Notre Dame, whose comparatively docile students bear little resemblance to the activists at Berkeley or Columbia, has suffered only modest demonstrations. The one that aroused Father Hesburgh occurred last November, when students held a lie-in in front of the administration building to prevent students from attending interviews with a CIA recruiter. Hesburgh denounced the lie-in as "clearly tyranny," said in his letter that Notre Dame could not tolerate "anyone or any group that substitutes force for rational persuasion," warned that angry reaction to campus violence from legislators might suppress the liberty of universities and "may well lead...
...know whether my dance will live," Martha Graham once said. "This is not my concern. If the ideas and principles of movement I have created pass into the general stream of dance, I shall feel amply satisfied." Lately, however, the grande dame of modern dance has displayed a somewhat less cavalier attitude toward the body of 144 works that she has created over the course of 43 years. Not only is she beginning to film some of them for posterity, but a number of less familiar pieces have been revised and restored to her recent repertory as well...
...last challenge took place in September 1967. The Intrepid beat back Australia's Dame Pattie in four straight races...