Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Academic fashions may fluctuate. Specific fields of study do, as we all know, rise or fall in relative popularity. But in the long run. I believe, our students simply will not let us abdicate our responsibility to teach, to argue, and let's face it, at times to be unpopular. If the Faculty is to recover its nerve, its clarity about and confidence in espousing the few, central values of a university, the students may have to pitch in and help. I believe they will...
...American Revolution, because my father came from Italy and my mother from France, but I fought in the First World War. There's a picture of my ship on the wall. Things were different then, There are just too many people moving in here. Let me tell you something. During the last century, thousands of Chinese came to California. The Governor imposed restrictions upon their would have been simply overrun...
...Supposing it was an emergency." he interrupted. "Do you know that we've had muggings and robberies right here in our very elevator? Yes, right in the elevator. I won't let my wife walk into this building alone at night. I leave the car in front, bring her upstairs and then go back down to park the car in a garage. We're taxpayers. What does he do with all that money? This city just isn't safe anymore...
...primary policy speech, Fioravante Perrotta, Lindsay's unsuccessful running mate for Controller, put it this way: "Let me begin by stating one principle all three of us share. The solution to the fiscal crisis of our cities cannot be found within the cities themselves.... There must be real help from the Federal government." Left unstated, but taken for granted, was that State help would also be needed...
...Yale's Executive Committee-six of whose 22 members are students-can override the suspension with a lesser or more severe punishment. The committee met with the students for four hours Wednesday and agreed to override the rule and let them remain in their rooms and eat in the dining halls...