Word: hatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most foreign images of Australia are formed around the outback, that monotonous expanse of brown grassland that stretches inlamd from the eastern mountain chain to the central desert, broken only by equally monotonous and enormous herds of sheep. The Australians' love-hate relationship with this inscrutable piece of earth is well-chronicled...
...that could not have been the reason for student uprisings in the late '60s in Germany, Italy and France. Larger forces were at work. Now, the cycle has swung around again, toward a greater interest in social issues. But now the interest is tempered. There's no war to hate, no Dick Nixon to hate. The president of the University has learned the usefulness of being a moving target. Authority is more diffuse, the issues concerning students more complex. Students surprised both administrators and themselves last spring by their ability to focus opposition on corrupt and corrupting economic forces...
Three years later, while Mason was searching for the source of Brazil's Iriri River, he was clubbed to death by Kreen-Akarores Indians, who had learned to fear and hate strangers. As tragic as his friend's death was, it was also something of an awakening for Hanbury-Tenison. He went adventuring again, but soon found it pointless. He bought 600 acres of pasture land and moors in Cornwall, England, but saw little reward in the life of a country squire. Convinced he should help the tribal people he had seen, he joined in 1969 with Francis...
...endanger reputations. Confidentiality, he says, protects professors whose course suggestions the committee rejects. This attitude appears overly protective. As Berman said of his experience on the committee: "If there is one thing I have learned in the past year-and-a-half it's that above all Faculty members hate to be embarrassed. You've got to indulge them so they don't back out and just not offer the Core course...
Student reaction to the strike is ambivalent. Most students hate Silber with a passion and welcome rumblings among the faculty both as a way to get at Silber and to gain more of a voice in university affairs. The faculty union has nurtured student support for the strike and many students are joining the picket lines. However, some students believe they were abandoned when the faculty agreed to settle for a contract ignoring student issues. Many students are also worried that faculty salary increases will cause tuition hikes, while others fear missing too many days of school. On Monday, officers...