Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supremes to "Cloud Nine" by the Temptations. These are good examples of the type of social-comment song Motown produces. The songs do have comparatively relevant messages to impart and the Temps at least, have double-meaning, humor, and understatement down to an exact science in "Cloud Nine." Given that Motown is very conscious of its image among white Americans, the future would seem to hold more of the same type of songs and an increasing orientation towards, if not a deep penetration into, the life-style of urbanized blacks, done in a style both clear and inoffensive...
...When the OEO-sponsored community action groups began to make too much trouble for the city halls and the state houses, word quickly got back to Washington that it was time to start phasing out the community action groups. The power of these groups--like all "power" that is given rather than won--turned out not to be power at all. Within the next few months their remaining "power" will probably be reappropriated by the federal government, and that will be the end of that...
...basis of "the singularly successful political economy of the 1960's." An economic explanation of racism is dismissed as vulgar Marxism. Black poverty, he feels, can be explained in terms of economic and sociological processes which are mainly internal to the ghetto rather than imposed from outside. Given this view, the vast changes which have transformed the American economy since the time when the Jews, Italians, and Irish were fighting their way up can be ignored: the rationalization and consolidation of once-marginal areas of economic activity need not be seen as closing off the traditional avenues to group advancement...
Lloyd E. Hawes, lecturer on Radiology at the Medical School, has just given the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard the largest historical collection of radiological literature and equipment in the country...
Present policies allow the scholarship committee to reduce by up to $500 the stipend of a student whose record is unsatisfactory. The student is then given a loan for the amount of the reduction. Thirteen of the students on probation for the December 12 sit-in at Paine Hall receive scholarships...