Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crises. The old worries about the superficiality of Nixon have been rekindled. He has been preoccupied with deadlines: give him a year; no war criticism for 60 days; we'll do it faster than Clark Clifford wants. These are splendid salves for the wounds, but they avoid the realities. There is no real progress in the pursuit of peace that anyone knows about. There is a middle America, angry at crime and dissent, in tune with much of what Richard Nixon stands for, but to ignore the basic causes of problems is dangerous...
TELEVISION periodically senses the amorphous confusion of its efforts and attempts to give us a perspective, Some reporter all too often will appear against institutional-blue studio flats and proceed to give us in-depth analysis. But these efforts often serve up only lead lines and inflated stories for the next newscast. The networks do not understand that by presenting Government statements at face value, they reinforce them. The questions which resonate weakly in every literate living room are not asked...
...waltzes up grimly to tell us about CBW warfare. I saw this one. I sat there (waiting for Shanghai Express of course) watching all these flashes of botulin and anthrax, hearing them described as more humane than bullets and bombs. A liver-spotted general emeritus told me how germs give me (us-US) a bonus area of death, and how we had germs because the Russians had germs, and how we would like to fall back on gems if that would prevent nuclear holocaust. At the end of all of this Mike lowered his script and reassured me that this...
...that is precisely taking each on its merits. If the worry is about losing time, experience shows that in these cases more time is wasted in attempts to decide whether discussion is legitimate, than is consumed in substantive discussion. Let the precedent be set, and let the faculty give itself fair and reasonable rules for dealing with all matters brought up for its consideration. (That condition will only be met, by the way, when the faculty agrees to share its deliberations and decision making powers with students.) A patently unreasonable motion, or a proposed topic for discussion that stands clearly...
...Graduate School of Education has begun a program designed to give future professors of education a practical knowledge of classroom teaching...