Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...However desirable a department of black studies might be in a culturally chauvinistic sense, it is hard to see why it should be given priority over training for the professions. While a course in Jewish history and culture might have been personally edifying, I fail to see how it would have equipped me to discharge my responsibilities as a psychologist. I have done my share of griping over the obduracy of professors and the vacuity of courses, but I never challenged the options of the faculty. Always in mind was the awareness that I was on campus by qualification...
Businesslike Candor. Like all opening bidders, the President offered only part of what he may eventually find necessary to put up. Even so, given its conciliatory tone and highly flexible sub stance, the Nixon plan had an almost immediate effect on the Paris peace talks. After formally presenting the message to Communist negotiators at week's end, Henry Cabot Lodge could make the optimistic announcement that, despite initial criticism, the other side gave "every indication" of willingness to bargain on Washington's proposals. In a still more heartening move, North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to meet secretly with...
...tensions eased late in the week, curfews were lifted long enough to allow householders to go out and buy food. The fires burned on, however, and there were still occasional racial clashes. For some time to come, Malaysia would be a bitterly divided society. Already many Chinese have given up hope: one senior government official spoke of abandoning everything in Kuala Lumpur and returning to his native Singapore. There was no doubt that if many others followed his example, severe damage to Malaysia's once-prospering economy would result. Beyond that was the question of whether the wounds opened...
...kitchen intercom so that the help would know when to clear tables without disturbing speakers. In his talk, Helms described Ho Chi Minh as "an utterly cold-blooded individual, not at all a kindly uncle," called the Kremlin leadership "morally bankrupt" and claimed that the National Liberation Front had "given up any hope of winning the war on the battlefield." To make sure that he would be first on the wire with the story, Srodes ran off to file before Helms had finished. He tipped a Reuters reporter in a corridor to cover the rest of the speech. Although...
...telling me about his heart attack. "It was like a little pain in my chest. And then a great big pain like that," he clapped his hands suddenly, "and I was out." He smiled. "That would have been a good way to go, too. So fast." A nurse had given him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and a chest massage and saved his life...