Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest for any adjustments in the course," says Ray Hammond, '70, "it will not be in the form of a disruption. Any legitimate adjustments can be made easily. We're dealing with basically good people, and the relationship between black students and the faculty is direct, not indirect...
...campaign corollary to Parkinson's Law might be: Words directed at the electorate multiply in direct proportion to the time and space available on TV and radio and in magazines and newspapers. By any reckoning, the 1968 campaign sets an alltime record for verbiage. Small wonder that with so much talk flooding the ether, the words sometimes get mixed up and Candidate A sounds like his opponent Candidate B, and Candidate C sounds like both. As proof of the theorem, here is a simple test: Match the candidates and their words...
...Senator's parents will be honorary chairmen of the project, and former R.F.K. Aide Fred Dutton will direct its operations. Dutton said the memorial will begin with such programs as luring college and high school students into work in the ghettos. "This is the sort of thing," said Ted Kennedy, "that he would have been doing...
...Israelis have already come close to a direct clash with the Russians. During September's artillery exchange, they refrained from hitting the Suez oil refinery-rebuilt since Israeli artillery destroyed it last year-for fear of hitting Russian technicians. This time, the Israelis aimed their guns at the refinery anyway, setting fire to three oil storage tanks...
...their rush to relevancy, Harvard, or more particularly the history department, overlooked the fact that black students would be concerned with the "intellectual salt" of a course on the Afro-American experience. Certainly the black students who called Professor Friedel into question took a more direct route than is usually seen at Harvard, and indeed some toes were stepped on. But I'm less concerned that some toes got stepped on (though I must confess a certain chagrin that it happened to a man who has been a constant, even if quiet, advocate for black dignity) than with the fact...