Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is still work to be done here in translating the sentiment for an Afro-American studies into a workable program. The mechanics of setting up a degree committee should not prove difficult; the CEP earlier this year discussed a proposal by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, to establish such committees for any student with a legitimate plan for concentration which fell outside the range of normal Harvard fields...
Harrison said he realized that he faced a challenging task--Harvard has not had a winning season in the Ivy League since 1937. But, he added, "I think I can establish basketball here in three years. If I didn't I wouldn't have taken...
Nixon's Net. Thus there was more charisma in his domestic politics than realism in his Realpolltik. Rockefeller was attempting to establish himself as the thoughtful surveyor of the big picture, eager for peace but opposing appeasement, less militant than Nixon, more mature than Robert Kennedy, more flexible and far-sighted than the Johnson Administration...
...attempted instead to camp on unexceptionable middle ground. The U.S., he maintained, must seek a settlement "whose aims and guarantees safeguard the freedom and security of all Southeast Asia." The "Americanization of the effort, military and civilian, should be reversed." At the same time, he argued, Washington must somehow establish a more representative government in Saigon; military strategy must stress security for the population rather than control of territory...
...relying on contrast for its most important effects. And the juxtapositions of Cambridge and the world in White Sale produce a profound and remarkable effect. They manage to cut both ways, to demonstrate what is distortive about the habits of mind which add up to Cambridge, and also to establish the fact of national folly. Finally, White Sale is able to suggest that Cambridge may be isolated only in some details, that it may finally be the most valid America-in-the-small that any of us will ever know, that a tentative gesture of love or acceptance at dawn...