Word: exhortations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Written in the second person, most of the principles are didactic aphorisms which exhort the reader to hard work, self-denial and service to society. "Be firm! Be strong! Be a man! And then... be an angel!" counsels principle number...
...Stanford itself, a new set of rules for faculty self-regulation is under consideration. It lays out carefully fashioned guidelines for disciplinary action and provides that "no faculty member shall prevent, or directly exhort or incite anyone" to interfere with another "performing his duties within the university." Although the new rules would not retroactively affect the handling of Franklin's case, their spirit is likely to. Franklin sees his suspension and possible firing as part of "the wave of political repression, the new McCarthyism, now sweeping the campuses of the empire." But in fact his case squarely presents...
...that "fitness to teach" was an issue. "I think it's my responsibility to judge on your fitness to get up there and teach kids," Deitch reportedly said. He asked Schwartz how he would address students in his classes if a demonstration was taking place on campus. Would he exhort people to take over buildings? Would he take part himself? If he were a dean and students occupied his office, how would he react...
...will work is questionable. As one G.I. from the 5th Mechanized Division put it, "We are the unwilling doing the unwanted for the ungrateful." The Army may not be able to turn such attitudes around very much or very soon. The simple fact is that it is hard to exhort soldiers to fight a war that even the Pentagon wants to write off as fast as possible...
While politicians, who know a good stump when they see one, exhort the all-white crowd and country bands pick and sing, the spitters gather around tobacco manufacturers' displays on Billy John's log-cabin porch to discuss their craft. Don Snyder, 22, the Mississippi State University student who has held the distance crown for two years, explains that it takes time "to get your juice right. It can't be too thick or too thin. You've got to just chew for about an hour and not drink or eat anything and get your mouth...