Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger is satiated by the attempts to unravel the complexities of the Viet Nam War, which has demanded so much of his energy and his psyche for four years. If peace develops, he may go to Hanoi in the spring to discuss postwar reconstruction...
...wasteful war had just been declared at an end, the economy was going like gangbusters on double time, Government-imposed controls on prices and wages had recently been loosened, and the world's monetary powers were meeting to discuss long-overdue currency reforms. So last week was the perfect time for a good, old-fashioned Wall Street rocket launching, right? Wrong...
...interruptions. Editors come in to find out whether they are to have work given them or not, and they sit around talking and laughing and poking fun at the Managing Editor while he tries to write, and they wait. Often other officers of the board appear with something to discuss. More than one person calls with the various purpose of pointing out that an organization in which he is interested has not been given enough prominence of late...A Freshman is easy to dispose of. But if the caller is an instructor or a graduate, the task of pacifying...
...their share of flak from The Crimson. In both cases, it seems, the personality of the attacked was as important to the editorialists as their programs. Lowell in particular was challenged for his autocratic manner, and his seeming indifference to the College's public image. When he deigned to discuss his House Plan with the press. The Crimson found the occasion surprising enough to make it the subject of an editorial...
There are those in college whose opinion we respect, though it is likely to be unfavorable to us. They are interested in important social and literary questions, and would gladly discuss them in a college paper or magazine. It is possible they may be dissatisfied with us because we do not offer the opportunity. Let them, however, consider the matter candidly. The Yale Lit is of the character proposed. As a rule it is "intolerably dull"--we use the Courant's words--in those parts where it differs from less pretentious periodicals. The same was true of similar magazines formerly...