Word: herbert
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...have put the economy close to or perhaps at the top of the list. But since President Nixon announced his New Economic Policy last August, Democratic candidates generally have found it difficult to mount an effective attack. Last week the chairman of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, Herbert Stein, went so far as to declare that "at the moment there is no issue" in the economy. He added: 'There is no serious, coherent policy that is an alternative to the one the Administration has initiated." That convenient vacuum could be filled well before November...
...victories and "a moderate, measured show of strength," as Slonimski put it. The large Warsaw chapter of the union voted down most of the government slate of potential delegates, and sent a more independent and distinguished group to Lodz. At the convention, a total of seven liberals-including Zbigniew Herbert, Poland's leading lyric poet-were elected to the 24-man executive committee that had previously been composed entirely of conservatives. Jerzy Putrament, who for 20 years has been the party's politruk, or watchdog, within the union, was narrowly re-elected to the committee by a single...
...chaos of the Attica uprising last September, one of the most extraordinary characters to emerge as a convict leader was a scarred but eloquent West Indian named Herbert X. Blyden. Last week his lawyers appeared in a Manhattan federal court for a new round in Blyden's long battle to overturn his 1965 robbery conviction. TIME'S James Willwerth visited him in prison and reported Blyden's tale of his continuing war with...
...Herbert C. Kelman, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics has answered my Dunster House critics on the editorial page of the Crimson. The gist of his statement is that he values academic freedom so highly that he would accord it even to me. "Those of us on the Left," he says to his partisans in Dunster House, must defend academic freedom. The Herrnstein article, he grants, "calls for response--including political response," but within the limits of academic freedom (presumably mine). I appreciate the protective impulse, but have some doubts about both its source and its goal...
...Herbert Aptheker, professor of History at Bryn Mawr, said last night that American historiography was "predominantly racist...