Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task force reports, as task force chairmen James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government (core curriculum) and Paul C. Martin '52, professor of Physics (concentrations) insist, are strictly recommendations that will be debated and revised before ever hitting the Faculty floor...
Columbia Law School Dean Michael Sovern, 44, noted the difference between "the advocate leader and the consensus builder," placing Martin Luther King Jr. in the first category. Radcliffe President Matina Horner, 37, spoke of leaders with "power motivation" as opposed to "achievement motivation" or "affiliate motivation," the last being a polite term for "cronyism." Leaders with power motivation, she suggested, are at once the most glamorous and dangerous of the lot, "able to mobilize resources-and also get us into wars...
...Martin Olav Sabo, 38, speaker of Minnesota's house, had a similar bone to pick: "[Columnist] George Will made a very, very good point in saying that too often our problem with Government is that it is too responsive. It is a sort of Burger King responsiveness: put in your order and we will respond...
Superior Quality. Martin Luther King School, a handsome building on a grassy lot, has always looked like an inner-city oasis. But eight years ago, its quality of education was abysmal. Staff turnover and student absentee rates were high, and fights were commonplace in the halls. Today, thanks to a research program of self-help supported by the Ford Foundation, the Yale Child Study Center and the National Institute of Mental Health, the quality is not only good but superior. All pupils who have been in the school for two years are up to grade level, there has not been...
Buttons showing Carter clasping hands with the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. and signs chastising the seven million blacks who did not vote in 1972 highlight the attention being paid to black voters--90 per cent of whom are expected to vote for Carter if they go to the polls. In addition to Young, Georgia state representative Julian Bond has appeared in Boston to encourage voter turnout...