Word: duress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are no grounds for the Faculty to stand pat at this juncture. The argument that to act now would be to act under duress, to condone unconscionable tactics, is a false one on two counts. It rests, first, on the assumption that the forcible expulsion of several deans from University Hall was engaged in or endorsed by a large group; and, second, on the idea that all stages of the present crisis are irrevocably bound together as one, under no circumstances to be treated separately. A student who takes seriously the question raised by this strike, as most...
James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and member of the CEP, said that the administration and Faculty has responded to the legitimate demands of students and that "a decision will not be made under moral duress." Wilson blamed the participants in the sit-in for preventing the Faculty meeting from taking place...
...more than a little. During the 1965 Watts riots, five supermarkets of one chain, in bad odor with local residents, were burned to the ground, while three markets of another chain, which was considered fair, were spared. The chain grocers are now clearly in the spotlight and under duress to do better for the poor...
Within the School, both students and some faculty members are now trying to implement a sweeping reassessment of the School. On Saturday, the Board of Governors upheld the supensions of Adelstein and Bloom and stated that no discussions could take place "under duress." The students replied by refusing to abandon the demonstration; they opened a debate on whether to continue the sit-in during the Easter vacation and to establish a "free university" with faculty...
Short-story collections have such notoriously poor sales records that U.S. publishers bring them out under a kind of duress. Either they are anxious to get an option on the first novel of a promising new writer or they are even more anxious to keep a bestselling novelist or playwright happy...