Word: grave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the McCarthy period the Corporation turned strongly anti-Communist. They once issued a statement which read in part, "In the absence of extraordinary circumstances, we would regard present membership in the Communist Party by a member of our faculty as grave misconduct justifying removal...
...operative Faculty legislation on the issue, the 1970 Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, states "that intense personal harassment of such a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others be regarded as an unacceptable violation of the personal rights on which the University is based...
...that's true," answers the stranger. "But taken in a historical context, three Olympiads marred by political disputes isn't such a grave development. History goes in cycles it has been said. In 1936, Hitler's regime processed the Munich Games into a format which only exposed his propaganda globally. And World War II prevented the sponsoring of the Games in 1940 and 1944. But, from 1948 until 1972 the Olympics had succeeded in allowing nations temporarily to ignore their political vitality. True, the 1968 and '72 Games had their political incidents, but neither of them signaled the inability...
Despite evidence of modest progress, University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Frank Furstenberg, among others, is not optimistic. "I think the situation is very grave," he says. "Unless we take steps to alter the situation, I think we are going to have a lost generation of black youth that is ill equipped to enter the labor force or to form families." At least black leaders are now declaring that family instability is an urgent concern. "It has been the strong black family that is the reason for our survival as a people," said N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks at the Fisk conference...
Jesse Jackson has committed a grave error in not dissociating himself from Louis Farrakhan [NATION, April 16]. With his foolish threats and racist rhetoric, Farrakhan and his group, the Nation of Islam, are bad company for a presidential candidate. Jackson will have a hard time convincing voters that he stands for equality and an end to racial misunderstanding...