Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the scholar can make his greatest substantive contribution. The professional diplomat is the man who knows where, in Paris or in Phnom Penh, in Bonn or in Bujumbura, to find the door to which diplomatic notes should be delivered. He has a pretty good idea of what will happen to the note after it is slipped through the mail slot in the door. But he cannot be expected to have a really deep understanding of the internal political and economic and social lines of force that converge on the men on the other side of the door. For that...
...second problem as, Rachael Radlo '68, a member of NSB, pointed out earlier this week, is rebuilding confidence. Before this could be accomplished nationally or internationally, it had to happen within NSA itself. Last week, permanent staff members were visibly embittered by the idea that so many secrets had been and were being kept from them. And NSB members were angry that the officers had no desire to call the board, and only did so under pressure. But after last Friday's statement, she believes, there was a new sense of unity among the NSA people in Washington...
...educators now regard the former president as an academic martyr. As pieced together from Kerr and the accounts of various regents, the details of the president's removal are now clear -and they add up to what one regent calls "a tragedy-because no one wanted it to happen then." Although a majority of the board had long since lost faith in Kerr, they did not want his dismissal to coincide with a new Governor's assumption of office, precisely in order to avoid the political implications. But Kerr's ultimate fate was foreordained. "Good...
...under that surface quality. I'm not sure people would go for me if I were a pure realist." And his present popularity? "I'm just appalled and amazed at the way in which people are interested in my paintings. I think it's because I happen to paint things that reflect the basic truths of life: sky, earth, friends, the intimate things. People are drawn to my work by common feelings that go beyond...
...Barnes preached the sermon while Methodist Minister Travis Kendall led the prayers. Kendall believes that this kind of "yoked congregation" is increasingly necessary for "sheer survival," makes possible "so many things that we couldn't offer separately. What we are doing now is the forerunner of what will happen all over the country...