Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This firm belief in the traditional university of tolerance and individual expression does not keep Ford aloof from any students. After the Dow protest, for instance, he devoted four days to hearing the opinions of students, junior faculty, and faculty on the pros and cons of punishing the demonstrators before he formulated his own position. In a typical fashion, he maintained an orderly list of the arguments on each side. In the end, he favored the most lenient possible punishment that would also deter a recurrence...
...participation" in factory affairs. They were sufficient in number to shout down Pompidou's wage increases. But they were not numerous enough to prevent the great bulk of French workers from wanting to go back to their workbenches, once it was clear that De Gaulle intended to stand firm. In that sense, the fundamental revolution of workers who are demanding genuine opportunity in French society still seems as far away as ever...
...helped to keep most of the world's angry opponents at arm's length, producing a host of skilled conciliators in the process-Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte, Canada's Lester Pearson, America's Ellsworth Bunker. Common to such men is a firm belief that conciliatory techniques (negotiation, mediation, arbitration) apply equally well to all disputes, marital as well as martial, between races and generations. It is a faith based not on Utopian dreams but on hard-won experience...
Intellect & Influence. Whether as public servant or private counsel, Fortas has never been an easy, friendly man. In his hugely successful Washington law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter, his younger associates found him machinelike, testy and hardboiled. Said one when asked for a brief description: "Unpleasant." Then the man reconsidered. "Meticulous," he said. On the court, Fortas' clerks are said to find a similar blend of thoroughness and severity...
...Green Light. Wicker argues that Lyndon Johnson was even more victimized by the "ebullience of power." As a firm believer in "the domino theory" of Communist aggression, Johnson privately vowed two days after Kennedy's death: "I am not going to lose Viet Nam." But as a Southerner who was avid to rise above sectionalism, Johnson had a passion for reflecting the broadest possible national consensus, which lured him into running as a peace candidate and stating publicly in 1964: "We don't want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys." According to Wicker, this...