Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israeli diplomats perceive an ominous threat in the very idea of a settlement "imposed" by the big powers. Should it happen, it would serve to make permanent and legitimate the Russian presence in the Middle East. And they are convinced that it would be achieved at the expense of their own hard-won security. In Washington and the U.N., they launched a vigorous counteroffensive against what they called a "Munich" settlement...
...lending institutions at such a rate was just before the crisis that bankers call the "1966 credit crunch." Bond prices crashed, the Dow-Jones average plunged 18%, and mortgage money grew so scarce that housing starts fell to a postwar low. Though some pessimists fear that all this could happen again, the banks have considerably more cash on hand in 1969 than in 1966. The Federal Reserve is also using its monetary weapons with more finesse...
...will make a choice that is approved by, even acceptable to, the Faculty." Grayson Kirk's downfall showed the folly of turning into a University President a man who is the darling of the corporate managers but enjoys no sympathy with the mass of the Faculty. It could happen here...
...true meaning of the moonshot lies in the moment. A given moment is all one can be entirely aware of, can fully experience. During the actual shot, the what would happen was still essentially unknown, a true probe in the imagination; the space capsule could have yoyoed the moon and whipped off towards the sun on a screaming tangent. But more importantly, only we, observing the space shot at the moment it happened, can fully understand the extent of human knowledge, mythology, and curiosity at the time of the experience...
...role, however small, in perpetuating it, the question of punishment and squashing those students whose concern was too strident for them will be an ideal method of avoiding their responsibility to the students, and faculty, and themselves. However, it seems to me that to allow the latter to happen would be a sad commentary on both the decision-making process at Harvard, and Harvard's concern with problems beyond our own University confines. Hayden A. Duggan...