Word: herbert
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...exodus. Says Savas: "City officials look upon business as a convenient cow to be milked." Until recently, the city offered few of the tax breaks or sundry inducements that other places use to attract and keep industry. "New York City has had a totally planless economic development," says Herbert Bienstock, a U.S. Labor Department employment expert...
...centered life and has no hobbies. A native of Brooklyn, Brownmiller attended Cornell, leaving before graduation to study acting in Manhattan. She appeared in two off-Broadway plays and worked as a Newsweek researcher. Studying nights at the Jefferson School of Social Science, she took a course taught by Herbert Aptheker, the American Communist historian and specialist in Southern studies. In the historian's thunderous lectures on white exploitation of Southern blacks, including the abuse of black women, Brownmiller recalls, "I heard for the first time in my life that rape was a political act." She joined the civil...
...faculty, and bend curriculum to their interests. Faculty members and administrators, integrated ideologically into the defense of the trustees' concerns, can be given relatively free reign with no danger. At Harvard in 1972-73, the governing boads didn't have to step in to deny tenure to Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and other Marxists. The Economics senior faculty was more than happy to ax the dissenters itself...
Although practice is now going on its fourth week, the defensive line situation is still pretty cloudy. Tackle Peter Mee appears to be the only person who has a starting spot nailed down. Russ Savage and Walt Herbert are fighting it out at one end post, whil Bob Bagot and Bill O'Neill are jousting at the other end spot...
Passions ran so high in the Spanish Civil War that many American correspondents joined the International Brigade. The New York Times's Herbert Matthews defended his open partisanship on the ground that it would have been hypocritical to claim objectivity when he was certain that he was right. George Orwell was just as committed to Republican Spain. But he was able to see that the Stalinist left was as anxious to eliminate Spain's independent left as it was to defeat Franco...