Word: milquetoasts
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Behind Bok's milquetoast image--a by-product of his disdain for the press, preference for nuts-and-bolts programs, and reluctance to speak out on issues he does not know well--there does appear to be a series of substantive programs. But it remains problematical whether Bok can spread his sense of purpose and create a sense of direction in the University. As he moves toward the end of his first decade in office Bok's ability to influence and inspire educators--something he has yet to do--may become the prime determinant of whether he is remembered...
...those minutes (now withdrawn by the embarrassed visiting committee which is still in the process of writing the normal milquetoast pap that passes for governing board oversight) also seem to reflect a consensus on the panel--shared by many GSD faculty and students--that Kilbridge's administration has been a "receivership" and that "Kilbridge cannot provide continued intellectual leadership...
...probably make about the Wright-Pastore program is that it does not promise to cut U.S. oil imports sharply enough. As it happens, the feeling is shared by at least one powerful Democrat, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman. The Wright-Pastore plan, he says, is "a Milquetoast program that doesn't do anything. Our position has to be tougher, much tougher...
Cohen's efforts have met some professorial resistance. "I may be a little snobbish," sniffs Professor John Cantel-on, "but I don't think you are necessarily going to turn a Caspar Milquetoast with a Ph.D. into a scintillating lecturer." Adds Religion Professor J. Wesley Robb: "What happens to learning when a class becomes enamored of an actor...
Though Snedden had been derided by one of his critics as a Milquetoast who "couldn't go two rounds with a revolving door," he has, in fact, turned out to have a distinct knack for political combat. He has unexpectedly put the more charismatic Whitlam on the defensive by his broadsides against Whitlam's abrasive policies. In foreign affairs, Snedden has accused Whitlam of needlessly alienating Australia's two closest friends, the U.S. and Britain, and has promised a more traditional, pro-Western policy...