Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice, democracy at the very least requires periodic free elections in which a representative majority of citizens may elect (or dismiss) a government. Most political scientists would demand more: one or more organized opposition parties to guarantee genuine choices, freedom from arbitrary arrest or intimidation, a free press, an independent judiciary, mechanisms guaranteeing the rights of minorities, and a system to protect or improve the economic well-being of all citizens...
...Goal. The mating of artist and academe may never be perfect. Cornell recently celebrated its centennial with a four-day exploration of "The Universities and the Arts" at Lincoln Center in which Cornell President James A. Perkins warned that the artist on campus must shake off his tendency to dismiss the faculty and student amateurs as "part of an offensive mass culture." He must also face the fact that the university's reliance "on the written word and the verbal tradition" is not always compatible with his own work "in the nonverbal media of sound, color, shape, movement...
Each-year the CRIMSON archly reviews the show, reporting that it's not too bad if you happen to like that sort of thing, and most people in the community dismiss it is good, crude, clubbie fun. In No Hard Feelings to be sure, the usual crudities are there; the puns, the stylized gestures, the obvious right gags guffaws from drunks and old grads alike. is also an excellent entertainment. The songs have sound and wit; the dances are uniformly fine; and the whole production, from resplendent costumes has a boisterous flair seldom seen in Cambridge...
...evidence was so solid that Armstead's court-appointed lawyer later asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to dismiss the appeal that he had filed for his client. The court complied, but in the process it went out of its way to rap Judge Holtzoff for his "inexplicable" rudeness to Mr. Armstead...
...conferences, Federal Judge Noel P. Fox in Grand Rapids finally ordered Smoot to post a $15,000 bond (he never has) to cover the league's legal fees if it could prove that Smoot's suit was merely for "vexatious purposes." With that, Smoot asked Fox to dismiss the charges...