Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twists. To this issue Mailer adds two individual twists of his own. He rages against those prosperous Negroes who elect to imitate the culture of the white bourgeoisie (though why this right should be denied them is not explained). He is willing to enter the taboo field of racial intermarriage, and here goes on record as having personally invited James Baldwin to marry his (Mailer's) sister...
...same magnetism and humor were apparent on Jan. 9, 1963, when as President-elect Kennedy visited Harvard Yard for the last time. "I am here to discuss your grades with President Pusey," Kennedy told the crowd that greeted him before a meeting of the Board of Overseers. "I shall represent your interests...
...goal is to add 200,000 to their usual 400,000 votes next year. They can probably do it. But the growth will be ephemeral if left uncemented by a firm party organization. With such an organization, the Liberal Party could both exert enormous pressure on the Democrats and elect officeholders...
...gooder proclamations calling for "moral regeneration." He is criticized for putting all his friends from his home province of Pampanga into administration jobs, and the charge is hurtful because most other Filipinos think the people of Pampanga are idle, spendthrift and treacherous. Says a Manila businessman: "Filipinos elect Presidents for the sport of knocking them down...
...most countries, the church moved quietly out of higher education. Only in the 1940s and 1950s did the church again start organizing colleges and universities in numbers. By then, national universities were often at the mercy of their most militant students and faculty members, who together helped elect rectors and choose professors, sat in on administrative matters, and generally played revolutionary politics all year long. In 1943, Ibero-American University, a private school closely linked to the Roman Catholic Church, was founded in Mexico. Others followed: Brazil's Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and Ecuador's Catholic...