Word: joined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several Harvard-connected figures joined the new-born fight against the ABM. Mrs. Bunting and Abram J. Chayes, professor of Law, were among 44 founders of the New England Citizens Committee on the Anti-Ballistic Missile. At the same time, another Faculty member went to Washington to join the Nixon administration. Paul W. Cherington, James J. Hill Professor of Transportation, followed John Volpe to the Transportation Department and became Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Policy and International Affairs...
Because of the new call for involvement, Pusey said that the old isolated scholars stance "is scorned as flimsy pretext for self-indulgence. It is demanded rather that he get down on the ground and join without equivocation in the march on poverty, racial injustice, and other social ills which...
...there will never be peace so long as Thieu sits in the presidential palace. This position might change in the course of negotiations, but at present it does not seem likely. When the Communists talk of a coalition, they are not thinking of a coalition with Thieu, because to join one would be to recognize his legitimacy. The second part of the problem involves Thieu's domestic political situation: Will his government be strong and broad enough to unite non-Communist forces and to hold its own against the Communists through an interim period, through elections and beyond...
...deeds of the past, infest the modern theater. If one were really to believe Hochhuth (The Deputy), Weiss (The Investigation) and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy), one would conclude that the playgoer is responsible for every human crime and flaw since Adam ate the apple. The latest playwright to join this tiresome mea culpa crew is Arthur Kopit. His play Indians argues that Americans were once beastly to the redskins, a heady bit of information...
...original experience. But sudden setbacks perplex him: "Last night the little girl walked in and handed me my notice. They voted me out of her league and I'm sorry. I'm embarrassed."His boyishly defiant recovery retains a quality of quiet longing: "So I'm a gonna join the cowboys and shoot me some outlaws (it's something to do since I'm out here anyway) but quit it all, give it all up, if the little girl could...