Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nesson said the memo is "a good lawyer's document, so persuasive an d responsible" the faculty will not react adversely to it. Confrontation politics and name-calling might have created faculty resistance, he added...
...regime had taken the first, cautious step toward political liberalization last June with the proclamation of a new constitution. The document provided for elections within 240 days, but it also safeguarded the Thanom government by stipulating that no-confidence motions could only come from a majority of members of the upper and lower houses. Such a negative vote would be unlikely, to say the least, since the upper house is entirely appointed by the regime. Said Opposition Leader Seni Pramoj, an articulate and outspoken lawyer who was Premier in 1945-46: "The constitution of 1968 almost achieves immortality...
...disrupted the work of Columbia University. I have since found no reason to change or add to what I had written months earlier." Since the book was written in "a feeling of communion. . . with the chief officers of Grayson Kirk's administration," it might be looked on as a document of that crisis. If its hostility toward undergraduates reflected the attitudes of the administration, then the gulf of misunderstanding was wide indeed. One can suggest, though, that Grayson Kirk and the Deans took a milder view of the commotion than Mr. Barzun. In Europe and Latin America, he observes, students...
...presenting facts and issues the report supplies information much needed for intelligent re-examination of a relationship which we have perhaps been too inclined to take for granted--a relationship which we must now, working with others, seek to improve as best we can. I commend this important document to your thoughtful attention. It is my hope also that it will be discussed this year in each of the faculties...
...frequently regarded as an obstinate savage by the succession of national leaders who rose and fell in the bloody welter of an inconclusive revolution. What he and his people wanted was set down with forceful simplicity in the Plan de Ayala, the catechism of Zapatismo and a landmark document in the history of Mexico's agrarian reform. Perhaps the most important point in the plan was the one that called for the surrender of one-third of hacienda lands to the farmers...