Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...claim that its fight was really against "vigilantism, hate propaganda and terror in the schools." No doubt extremists in Ocean Hill had recklessly and needlessly inflamed the situation. No doubt the union had a point when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...
Conscientious Objector. By now, the boiling controversy has become an open struggle for power by the U.F.T., which fears that control of the schools is moving from the city's central board to local committees, and that the union is being weakened in the process. As he fights to protect his union, Albert Shanker is demonstrating that he is a shrewd and sophisticated student of the uses of power. A onetime Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Columbia, he is an admirer of Elijah Jordan, an obscure American philosopher who argued that institutions, not individuals, mold a society...
...systematic murder of 6,000,000 of Europe's Jews by the Nazis during World War II was an act of such un speakable horror that any attempt to portray it has inevitably paled before the fact. Nonetheless, since war's end, some 50 U.S. local and national Jew ish organizations have been searching continually for sculptors or architects to design a suitable monument. Finally, three years ago, a formal Committee to Commemorate the Six Million Jewish Martyrs was set up. The art advisory committee, under the chairmanship of Washington Insuranceman-Collector David Lloyd Kreeger, had no difficulty...
...necessity when France and the U.S. temporarily cut off arms shipments at the outbreak of war. Israeli manufacturers responded to the pressure by setting up facilities to manufacture armaments. The country now manufactures 20% of its defense products and it plans to become totally self-sufficient within a decade. Local manufacturers wryly thank De Gaulle for his embargo, which has been only partially lifted...
Harvard debate teams reached the finals in two local debate tournaments this month, taking first at M.I.T. over Columbus Day weekend and coming in second at Brandeis last week...