Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection of eleven essays, The Dissenting Academy (Pantheon, $6.95), edited by Historian Theodore Roszak of California State College at Hayward. In the lead essay, Roszak contends that professors, pampered by their own rising affluence and coddled by Government grants, have let their research and teaching turn sterile. They gain no professional esteem from lively teaching, find no joy in pursuing a social cause, even lack loyalty to their own schools. Their main aim is to score points within their department or professional society. "Professional politicking and scholarly publication are all that academic success requires," claims Roszak...
More important, the SFAC should ask the Administration to define its role more distinctly. The Council should have presented an important proposal to the Faculty soon after it was formed to test its strength and gain the confidence of the students. Unfortunately, this was not done. It is now probably too late to salvage the respect of the Faculty and the students, but the SFAC should try. Concrete results--whether the Faculty accepts Council recommendations or not--are needed now. If the SFAC accomplishes nothing else, it can at least show how much of a role the Administration is willing...
NEBRASKA, May 14. Here Johnson may gain his first unsullied victory of the year in a directly contested race. The state is markedly hawkish, the Democratic regulars seemingly loyal. Last week former Governor Frank Morrison took over leadership of the Johnson campaign organization. The anti-Johnson sentiment seems too slight to support one challenger, let alone...
...heard by a presumably sympathetic judge may be dismayed at appearing before an unknown from Iowa. But, as one New York attorney observed, "we can always check a judge out by calling a colleague who practices in his area." And almost all of the lawyers concede that the potential gain in the court's calendar far outweighs any individual inconveniences. Whether regular reshuffling of judges can provide a long-range solution is not so widely agreed on, however...
...people--let's make a revolution.' Well, you don't make a revolution that way." Schoenman's own revolutionary recipe centers on the "white working class" whom, he says, "bear the brunt or corporate capitalism." In a cold tone, he advises the radicals to continue demonstrations to gain mass support, foresake the "moral witnessing" of draft resistance, and begin longterm organization...