Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration so thoroughly rebuffed student attempts to share in decision-making power? Because the administration does the University's long-range financial planning and it jealously guards this vital decision-making tool. It is this power of the purse that enables the administration to wield direct control over social matters and indirect control over educational ones...
...front page article, "SDS Threatens ROTC Confrontation" (Nov. 19), misrepresents SDS as an organization eager for violent confrontation regardless of issues. The CRIMSON distorts our tactics and deemphasizes our goals--for example, the direct misquote of Toby Campion regarding the December 3rd Faculty meeting: "We will bust through physically and make ourselves known by our noise and numbers." Campion in fact said the opposite: that we should have a large rally December 3rd to demand the abolition of ROTC but that this does not mean we should bust in physically. No decision was made Monday night concerning tactics...
Mirko's emphasis on direct emotion seems special in the context of the VAC's neo-Bauhaus superrationality. The way he develops his forms from his feelings is encouraging and refreshing for those tired of ubiquitous Form From Function
That easy life is now on the way out. The Soviet sports program, formerly operated by a "voluntary public organization," will soon be under direct state control. Sergei Pavlov, ex-head of the Communist Youth League, has been appointed to run a new Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. He has been made a member of the Cabinet. And his orders are blunt. Says Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev: "International standards for our sports must be improved...
...that accomplishing cannot touch. First, destroying is final and absolute. Once all these Yale streaks and things are destroyed, they cannot happen again. Second, and most important, destroying is a wonderfully exhilarating thing to do--it is mischievous and healthy, It moves the spirit and the soul--it is direct, concrete and eternal...