Word: informing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's teach-in. In a syndicated column datelined "Cambridge," which appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe under the headline "Harvard Teach-in Misguided," he labeled the participants "breast-beaters who had never been there [Viet Nam]" and chided them as Ivory Tower observers who "never bothered to inform themselves about grim little Ho Chi Minh's brilliant success as a cold-headed murder of his early resistance comrades." He concluded that "perhaps American progression [sic] needs to be returned to its former preoccupation with hard facts...
Perhaps Mr. Alsop could set American progressivism a better example. In only a few sentences he manages to grossly misrepresent the aims of the teach-in--to inform not denounce--and its effect--the presentation of an intelligent, knowledgeable, many-sided discussion by some of the areas most distinguished professors...
...policeman said that the theft of the motion picture camera which occurred three years ago, had not been reported to the police until six months after it occurred. "We certainly can't help the Loeb people if they wait that long to inform us," he said...
Marches are sensitive to the charge that they march from emotion alone. The leaders work to inform participants and stimulate discussion. There are dozens of leaflets, one-sided but often well-executed. One of the best descriptions of the purpose of the march is in an SDS information sheet for its organizers. Unfortunately, it has not been widely distributed, for it is one of the ablest statements of the politics of voting with one's feet...
...Harvard, Socialist Club is launching a program to inform Harvard students of the racial situation in Harlem...