Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OUSTING THE PRESIDENT. Those who suspect that ultimately Nixon must go but want to spare both President and nation the ordeal of impeachment have been searching the Constitution for a more graceful means of exit. Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford has proposed that Vice President Agnew resign and that Congress submit to the President a list of three possible successors. Under the 25th Amendment Nixon could then choose one to be the new Vice President, who would take office upon confirmation by a simple majority vote of both houses. Nixon then could resign in his favor. To ensure harmony...
...famous door-slamming exit that climaxes Ibsen's once scandalous play about a bourgeois woman liberating herself from a claustrophobic marriage no longer shocks. The melodramatic blackmail plot in which she is ensnared for much of the time now seems a rather forced theatrical convention, not worthy of the playwright's thesis or a modern audience's interest. Its disclosure to her husband, which in turn exposes him as a hypocrite more concerned about his own status than his wife's reputation, seems both simple-minded and rather too specifically linked to a time (the late...
...BUREAUCRAT looks like another, and its the men who hold the political pursestrings that receive the most attention. The first year Bok set up his Administration; the second year he began to select his own people to run it. Exit R. Victor Jones, the dean of the GSAS, in September 1972; exit George Bennett '33, treasurer, the same month (Bennett remained until a successor was chosen); exit John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty, in January...
Although Bennett's reasons may indeed have been that simple, his exit was timely for the Bok Administration. In the wake of the takeover of Mass Hall--by students who were protesting Harvard's investment policy--men like Bennett, who believes that activist shareholder resolutions are a waste of time, just didn't fit into the Bok way of looking at things...
...youth movement that he had worked so hard in throughout the sixties was, quite simply, dead. And Maharaj Ji was the only way left to personal salvation and a better world. It was a message that deeply stung the radical half of the audience. Embittered by Davis's exit from activism, they shouted pointed references at him from the back of the hall--allusions to other bad receptions on the tour...