Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's stewardship there are unforgiving moments in which he is poised between forces that can sweep him on to greater favor and achievement or leave him a titleholder of little consequence. John Kennedy faced such a time at the Bay of Pigs only three months into his term. He shouldered the blame, wresting admiration finally from a dreadful mistake. In the fall and winter of 1965, Lyndon Johnson, enervated by his gallbladder removal, beset by the rising horror of Viet Nam, let himself be guided by his melancholy nature into the deception and self-pity that eventually forced...
Eugene O'Neill is a prime example of the roller-coaster ride of reputation. After his popular vogue in the '20s he went into two decades of neglect. Restored to critical approval and public favor in the mid-'50s, he began to mount an Everest of esteem which most of his plays cannot remotely scale. What is wrong with Anna Christie? Just about everything. With the daintiness of a dinosaur, the play, first produced in 1921, wallows in the goo of sentimentality, quavers with the palsy of moral priggishness, and resolves itself in a bogus happy ending...
...broke with the ACSR on one resolution. Although student-faculty-alumni group voted in favor of forcing General Electric to withdraw totally from South Africa-one ACSR member this week cited the committee's belief that G.E. has shown a "complete lack of interest in the fate of the black South African worker"-Putnam decided Harvard will abstain on the resolution...
...athletes favor Pittinger and Reardon over any outside candidates because they feel sure the two men will strengthen programs in both intramural and intercollegiate sports, Hill said...
Responding to reports that Harvard might name a member of the Williams College faculty to the post, the athletes said they favor either Baaron B. Pittenger Jr., associate director of athletics, or John P. Reardon '60, associate dean of admissions and coordinator of the program for athletic facilities...