Word: intent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional "heckling debate" in Harvard's public speaking course led to a potentially explosive situation. One student came to the debate dressed as a Klansman and argued in favor of the proposition that "Black Power is ruining America." Although the debate directors and the student himself said that their intent was harmless, black students objected immediately. A statement from a black freshman and the president of Afro said that the debate topic was comparable to "having a debate on the extermination of Jews--and bringing in one participant dressed as a Nazi...
...appropriate first object for revolutionary zeal." Instead of seeing the university as "the wicked servant of a wicked world," he said that "it would seem to me that the institution before all institutions which university men would choose not to attack in anger and in hate with intent to maim or cripple or destroy . . . would be the university itself...
...court," he wrote Parvin, a Los Angeles multimillionaire businessman. The Justice's bitterness was aimed at the Internal Revenue Service, which has been investigating the Parvin Foundation's finances for the past three years. Apparently Douglas believed that IRS agents were more intent on embarrassing him than on checking into the foundation's tax-exempt status...
...Acheson committee is designed to counterbalance the alliance of professors that, under the auspices of Nixon's foremost Democratic rival, Senator Edward Kennedy, recently issued a 340-page report critical of the ABM. In a letter introducing the committee, Acheson denied that its intent was to plead for high defense budgets, explaining that it sought merely to foster "balanced debate" on such issues as ABM. However, he left no doubt as to where the committee would stand on the ABM. Charging that the opposition proposed a "one-sided United States moratorium" on defense-missile systems, he ridiculed this...
...influence for Chou, who has a well-deserved reputation as an expert in political survival. Another surprise was the small size of the Standing Committee itself. In 1966, as the Cultural Revolution began, its membership doubled to 14 men. Now it is down to five,* indicating that Mao is intent on holding tightly to control...