Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Speak A Time to Act The Movement in Politics is a collection of essays that combines both his conviction and smooth low key style. The prose is uncathartic and well shaped; rarely does Bond launch rhetorical fireworks. The essays bridge racial lines; with characteristic catholicism Bond states, "One cannot discuss what life was like in the 1960`s or what it will be like in the 1970's without discussing what appear to be two continuing factors in American life, race and war." Bond's concern reaches far beyond the parochial needs of American blacks to encompass the quality...
...graduates of the colleges People visualize things, one Yale trustee said, as in their younger days It is terribly hard to persuade someone, especially an alumnus, to even rationally thank about equal admissions when his vision of Yale or Harvard is so fixed and constant. He cares not to discuss it since the last thing the older generations want to do is to destroy their vision, the trustee remarked. How do you convince long-time Yale or Harvard or even Radcliffe alumni that the college they knew in 1925 should be so radically changed, as if it has not already...
Prior to yesterday's demonstration, Harvard students met in Philips Brooks House to discuss plans for a mass protest meeting scheduled for Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Lowell Lecture Hall...
When it comes to speaking about a U.S. firm's competition, Soviet traders are anything but shy. In fact, some U.S. businessmen complain that they have been invited to discuss a deal to help provide leverage against, say, a Japanese company from which the Soviets are trying to get more favorable terms. Generally, price is only one of several factors that the Soviets consider; they are also interested in the latest technology, the quality of equipment, start-up costs and the amount of personnel training provided. American companies that have Japanese subsidiaries or partners are especially favored; the Soviets...
...such unfettered speculation seems to be coming to an end -at least for theologians who want to be considered believing servants of the church. Last month in Rome, 27 members of the Vatican's international Theological Commission used their fourth annual meeting to discuss how theologians could keep their intellectual pluralism within a unified faith. The trend was centrist. The conservatives were less conservative, the liberals less liberal than the year before. The commission's consensus: diversity can be allowed in forms of expression and formulation, but not in basic belief. The church needs a "missionary and pastoral...