Word: lull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just beginning to wonder why there had been such a lull in the usual progression of politically primitive and crazy Crimson pronouncements. But my prejudices were reconfirmed by the editorial board majority's railing against cross-registration for ROTC at MIT. How nostalgic. It takes me back to my senior year when the ROTC issue brought the student revolution to Harvard. It is interesting, though, that the current Crimson position is even more myopic than that of its predecessors in 1969, and is inconsistent on either moral or empirical grounds...
Richard M. Nixon, the same guy who named "Patton" as his favorite movie, named the 1812 as his favorite piece of classical music. Not surprising, given his predilection for the militaristic. Ironically, the piece was written during a lull in national spirit, and commemorates the battle in which Napoleon was defeated on the outskirts of Moscow. Traces of the Marseilles fade out, the Russian national anthem creeps in, canons go off (at Lowell, a policeman generally shoots a rifle into a garbage can)--all culminating in the peals of jubilation emanating from those vibrant bells of the Moscow churches...
...Jersey-while building a skeletal national organization from such bones as Cesar Chavez's far-flung boycott network and activist church groups. Brown is considering a nationwide tour, the better to disseminate his "lower our expectations" dicta, woo uncommitted delegates and influence the polls during the pregnant preconvention lull...
Wall Street analysts generally believe Xerox is not in a slump but a lull caused by the natural constraints of being an industry leader and thus the target everybody shoots at. They expect the company's profits to be flat this year but to pick up in 1977 as the 9200 and other new products begin making a real contribution to earnings. In any case, Xerox is still looking ahead. Having done so much to create the mountain of paper that businessmen deal with daily, Xerox is now working toward helping them eliminate it, or so officials privately admit...
...dislike the thought of seeming to play the part of lobbyists. But it is wrong to conceive of the effort in such narrow terms." In one sense the idea is sound: any Harvard student knows that a pack of Harvard professors dispatched to lecture in Washington could easily lull to sleep whole departments of formerly alert government regulators. Yet Harvard might benefit more if, instead of lobbying in the capital to keep governmental regulations out of Harvard, Bok lobbied here in Cambridge to persuade Harvard to accept and even welcome those rules that, like affirmative action, promise improve the University