Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...older generation at fault in the generation gap?" said, "Yes, for allowing young people to reach adulthood without respect for law except those that please them." It is sad that we don't have more such administrators to face these insolent youngsters. Parents of such students should let them go to work to support themselves...
...question the proposition that directing the Vienna State Opera is an unenviable job [May 10]. But, if you are to suggest that the job broke the health of Gustav Mahler, let us not neglect to mention his next directorship-which actually killed him-that of the New York Philharmonic...
...Hubert Humphrey soon provided another. Kennedy seized on H.H.H.'s "politics of joy" slogan to offer his own contrast: "If you want to be filled with Pablum and tranquilizers," he said in Detroit's John F. Kennedy Square last week, "then you should vote for some other candidate." Again: "Let's not have tired answers. If you see a small black child starving to death in the Mississippi Delta, as I have, you know this is not the politics of joy." Dramatic pause. "I'm going to tell it like...
Individual stations are also dealing increasingly with the race question. On Minneapolis' WTCN, Let's Talk-A Black and White Dialogue is staging a candid examination of the difficulties of living off welfare. Houston's KPRC continues a similar series with a discussion of the role of the police. Chicago's WTTW has just launched a lively Today-type show called Our People. Guests include Negro entertainers, Legal Aid staffers who tell viewers their rights in dealing with ghetto merchants, and city officials who are grilled on Negro grievances...
...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't receive a check," announced the A.F.L.-C.I.O. as the grace period ran out. "They...