Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty Council this week seemed to snatch defeat from the jaws of a victory for the moderate students who have been pushing since December for changes in the dormant Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...
...Faculty formed the council in 1970. It was a fairly political body at its inception. The Faculty's now dormant liberal and conservative caucuses come alive every spring and nominate slates of candidates to the Council. (Last year the box score on the election, sources say, was conservatives four, liberals two.) However, the council itself has become less and less political since its inception; Rosovsky, who served on the first council, says that he cannot tell any more who on the council is a Faculty liberal and who is a conservative. "In its first year," Rosovsky says, "there was lots...
...Denver airport in 1968, she joined one of the most exclusive parents' groups in the U.S. Though tens of thousands of South Vietnamese children became orphans that year, fewer than a dozen found homes in the U.S. Moved by the plight of those left behind, Buchanan resurrected a dormant aid organization to provide food and care for the orphans as well as to oil the adoption machinery...
...admits the "short-term quickie" usually wins out over more demanding long-term investigations. "When each day there's a high volume leads coming in, you take the most sensational, the easiest to do quickly. Two days later you do the same, while something very important may be lying dormant...
...production compared to the flashy prostitutes, Roscoe, or Madam Alberta K. Johnson. But he is the strongest representative of the underlying tension of blacks in a culture dominated by whites, the tension that never surfaces in many of Hughes's characters. Garr asks the question that lies dormant in all of them, a question that appears only in the worst moments of despair for a people used to despair: "What happens to the dream deferred?" In Harlem, the dream of equality explodes into the same human qualities we all have, perhaps a little more passionately. And when Garr decides that...