Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brothers' tree is a roost for 50 peace doves. Socialite-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper's tree is a collage of gingham swatches and lacy Christmas cards. Baroness Maria von Trapp directed her tree be festooned with homemade cookies-even sent the recipes along. But no one could hold a Christmas candle to Songstress Pearl Bailey who, when asked what she wanted on her tree, replied "Just gobs and gobs of pearls, honey." And gobs is what she got: $25,000 worth of cultured pearls-3,500 in all-dress up Pearlie Mae's tree...
...trouble is, despite donations and grants, the Annex does not have enough money to operate for the entire year. The students plan to hold a fashion show and put on a play to raise funds, but even if they succeed their school will still be in danger. There is a possibility that Washington will adopt the Annex program for its entire school system. The Strivers would like to see the idea spread, but they know that a large part of the Annex's appeal is that it is voluntary. Massive adoption, they fear, might well kill the spirit that...
...decided by one group of students is not a method acceptable to nay self-respecting Faculty: A rule cannot be changed through its coercive violation. Had the Deans not decided to cancel the meeting, it would have been the Faulty's duty either to do so, Faculty initiative to hold an open meeting could be taken, the sit-in had to end-and the least one can say is that it had not made the success of any such initiative easier; for, if we start to talk about the politics of ultimatums, the sit-in constituted the first...
...other words, the minority of students who decided to sit-in order to pressure the Faculty both to adopt one kind of solution on ROTC and to hold open meetings, was precisely not in the situation of, say, the minority of industrial workers who had to organize strikes against companies that had effectively deprived their employees of any mode of redress other than coercion. It is because there existed orderly -- if slow and constricted -- procedures for change, which had demonstrated neither their impotence nor their indifference, that the sit-in is indefensible--not because the target happened...
...which lent itself to misinterpretation--not only by those who ware anyhow suspicious of any solution less simple than their own. The CEP text, I believe, was too clever by half in its wording; yet it could have been clarified and improved if the Faculty had been able to hold a normal meeting, just as we could have discussed the holding of open meetings if the sit-in had not prejudged the issue. In coming days, it would be tragic if Faculty indignation became a pretext for dodging the two serious issues of ROTC and of the students' role...