Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enlightening. Soon after President Eisenhower announced that he would not be a candidate for another term, Senator Philip Hart (Michigan Democrat) introduced a resolution, stating, "Whatever the outcome of the presidential elections in November, a new administration will take office. None of us knows which political party will direct that administration. I suggest this is a most appropriate time for the Senate [then controlled by the Democrats] to record its extreme reluctance to see recess appointments made to the Supreme Court...
...operation for cancer. The disease now became acute again. Near death, he made his way to a hospital in Tashkent, where the tumor was arrested. The experience gave rise to Cancer Ward, a weaker book than his others. Yet the book rises toward the end to Solzhenitsyn's most direct statement of the complicity of everyone in the guilt of the past: "It's shameful, why do we take it calmly until we ourselves or those who are close to us are stricken? ... If no one is allowed for decade after decade to tell it as it is, the mind...
Subsequent to this event, tanks and soldiers started patrolling the streets. Any students found speaking against the government were arrested, in effect abolishing freedom of speech. By now the entire student population of Mexico City was incensed. Universities joined the high schools in their protests. A student organization to direct the opposition to the government started to form during this period...
This summer, SRRP undertook a more direct assault at the program. Workers in the Black Belt counties spent all day, every day, travelling through the rural "niggertowns" finding people who had been denied the Food Stamps and welfare they were entitled to, by discriminatory white officials. Constantly aware that their work had to continue beyond the summer that the Northern students working for SRRP could spend in Alabama, SRRP tried to build local welfare rights organizations to carry on the fight against the white officials...
Congress is punishing students, but its method of punishment is far from direct, and in the process it may be hurting the federal agencies that it is really trying to help. A Defense Department Official said that denying NASA funds to colleges that bar recruiters would "serve to handicap" the entire military recruitment program on campuses. In that case, too, Congress may have actually played into the hands of militant students, who, by getting their college to bar military recruiters, see NASA, another vestige of the federal presence, removed from their campus...