Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the revolution needs almost as much as leaders is philosophers. Too many half-rate thinkers have degraded the movement into a vague out-cry against ill-defined systems and for uncertain goals. Pragmatists, students of revolution, and politicians want to know just what they are fighting for and why they will win. Marcuse is the only man who can answer them in the logical, formal terms they demand...
...overseers, or trustees; in practice, most major policy decisions are handled by the Harvard Corporation, a seven-member council that includes President Nathan Pusey, Treasurer George Bennett and five alumni (who choose their own successors). But the six-day student strike, an event for which the administration was ill prepared, subtly changed the balance of power at Harvard. Each element in the academic community in turn asserted its right to speak for the university and to prescribe cures for the institution's ills. To foment the crisis, Students for a Democratic Society had raised two issues: ROTC and university...
Others on the receiving end of her spite might have been happy with a handshake. When Bobby was Attorney General, Ethel seethed at FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's ill-concealed disdain for his young boss. So she jabbed away at Hoover's sorest point, his running feud with Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker. Into Hoover's personal suggestion box one day she popped a note, signed by her, saying "Parker for FBI Director...
...miserable instead of happy, look stale instead of springtime-fresh, cough instead of smile. By far the most chillingly effective ad is an appeal by Actor William Talman, a longtime three-pack-a-day smoker. Talman, who played the prosecuting attorney in the Perry Mason series, looks gaunt and ill as he appears onscreen with his family. He tells viewers: "I have a family consisting of six kids and a wife whom I adore, and I also have lung cancer, which means that my time with this family I love is so much shorter." He died last August, six weeks...
Dallying Over Demand. Efforts to improve the trade picture have been bungled repeatedly by Harold Wilson's Labor government. After devaluation, Wilson dallied for months over steps to curb domestic demand, which was not only stoking inflation but sucking in imports that Britain could ill afford. The government belatedly imposed a record $2.3 billion of new taxes a year ago and subsequently put new restrictions on bank credit and installment purchases. All such restrictions reckoned without the canny determination of the British consumer, who ran up his personal debt and ran down his personal savings...