Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shame & Slogans Sir: Your article on poverty in America, "A Nation Within a Nation" [May 17], certainly brought home to Americans in a meaningful way the shameful conditions that exist in our nation. Doesn't it seem strange that, after some thirty-five years of political leadership that has given us such slogans as New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Unfinished Business, Great Society, we should be plagued with such poverty? Doesn't this suggest some kind of a failure in our political leadership and that perhaps we have been mesmerized by Madison Avenue slogans rather than trying...
...call upon those of my fellow students who are sincerely dedicated to the cause of social justice for all Americans, to sacrifice superficial, emotionally satisfying demonstrations and return to the cool, reasoned approach that characterized our movement under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King. Only by such total dedication can we achieve our ends...
...labor movement last week became more than mere rhetoric. After 13 years of uneasy alliance, Walter Reuther, who led the C.I.O. into merger with George Meany's A.F.L. in 1955, took a separate path. In view of Reuther's bitter criticism of Meany's leadership, a dramatic departure directly tied to some matter of principle might have been expected. Instead, Reuther let his United Automobile Work ers fall 90 days late in monthly dues ($96,542) to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., thus causing his men to be suspended from all posts in the federation. "We didn...
...department, with approval of the Dean, to be relieved of part of a full-time teaching load to permit greater attention to the management and administration of departmental affairs. Recruitment of faculty requires more time and deserves more attention than is usually devoted to it. Serious attention to the leadership and administration of departmental affairs may contribute significantly to the development and maintenance of departmental distinction...
...established private college is going to get worse. With its final paragraph, the report delivers the coup de grace to the notion that Harvard can be universally excellent: "The Committee recommends that the Faculty concentrate upon a limited number of areas in which it can provide top-quality leadership rather than seek to achieve a full spectrum of appointments in every department and academic specialty. Given financial constraints, the Faculty cannot hope to cover all fields and specialties without risking a dilution of quality. On a departmental level we endorse cooperative arrangements with other institutions in the area to reduce...