Word: everly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Department of Education, moreover, is a political payoff from President Carter to the National Education Association (NEA), a group mostly concerned with primary and secondary education. It is no secret that Carter traded his influence for the NEA's first-ever endorsement of a presidential candidate. For a man who came to Washington promising to trim down the federal bureaucracy, Carter hasn't done a very good job. We can only hope that the new department does not become a mouthpiece for the interest groups that rallied for its establishment--and that issues of post-secondary education are not buried...
...problem: How do you get Robert Strange McNamara away from Quincy House when 700 students are outside waiting to block his path? Nothing like this had ever happened before at Harvard. Sure, there had been minor stuff, a little picketing, a little heckling, but never this many students willing, despite warnings from the administration, to go ahead with a "disruptive demonstration" and to seek a "physical confrontation." The Students for a Democratic Society [SDS], frustrated with the Defense Secretary, was determined to personally show him what they thought of "McNamara...
...tactics were not, SDS's goal was clear: embarrass McNamara. K-School Institute of Politics officials felt equally strongly--they did not want to see their first-ever "honorary associate" swept away by a sea of anti-war students right in front of the television cameras...
Back at the ballgame, they've turned up the static again, and the crowd is getting ugly. The Red Sox are down 1-0 following a big Toronto third inning, which is to say as big as Toronto third innings ever get. The static continues, louder--it's like that night Elvis Costello cleared out an unsimpatico crowd by telling his roadies to turn up the white noise...
...tung, the ruler whose life had been dedicated to overturning the values, the structure, and the appearance of traditional China, lived in fact in the Imperial City, as withdrawn and mysterious even as the emperors he disdained. Nobody ever had a scheduled appointment; one was admitted to a presence, not invited to a governmental authority. I saw Mao five times. On each occasion I was summoned suddenly. On one visit Mao expressed interest in meeting my wife Nancy. The fact that she was shopping presented no obstacle to our hosts. She was hustled out of a shop by a protocol...