Word: misguidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who 20 years ago presciently warned of the breakdown of the black ghetto family, rejected the idea that Democratic programs should be blamed for creating a dependency on Government, which aggravated the underclass crisis. "It has become a belief bordering on prejudice," he said...
There is need for a thorough, dispassionate biography of Murrow, one that could assess his precise contributions to American journalism--and to modern relations between the news media and Government during his stint as director of the U.S. Information Agency in the Kennedy Administration. Ann M. Sperber, a former book...
The rhetoric was just what the world has come to expect of a United Nations forum. African officials spoke earnestly about the need for their continent's people to "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps." Western officials spoke approvingly of Africa's new maturity, its emerging can-do spirit...
Finally the University became embroiled in perhaps the largest controversy this year when it included a letter by Board of Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 (no relation to Derek Bok) in the official election packet for that governing body, which is sent to all alumni. That letter criticized the...
The verdicts marked a victory for the Federal Government in its drive to prosecute members of a nationwide movement that seeks to give church sanctuary to Central American refugees who have entered the U.S. illegally. The outcome of the case, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Reno, "is going to have...