Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employees. Although the National Labor Relations Board has certified the clerical workers' union, the administration knows that by appealing the decision through the courts it will delay negotiations with the clerical and librarian unions for up to three years. Last year the university hired a notorious union-busting firm, Modern Management Methods--effectively used by Harvard in the past--to prevent the clerical workers from forming a union. That firm was successful in defeating unions at 98 of the 100 firms it represented last year, but it was unsuccessful...
Shortly thereafter demonstrators asked Glimp, Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty and now McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and J. Petersen Elder, then dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to leave. The deans left peaceably, with Ford being allowed to return briefly to pick up his coat...
...good old days of Watergate. If Paul's relationship with Emily, the ventriloquist lady, remains a trifle too enigmatic, that does not fatally flaw a novel of wit, sensibility, and a delicate honesty about the ways (notably sexual) in which distant stations send and receive signals across the modern wasteland...
Freedom is a capricious and demanding mistress. The defense of her integrity is an unrelenting vigilance which takes the form of a continuous negotiation of the terms for her life. So it has been since the medieval, monastic beginnings of our modern universities...
...that those decisions the executives backed off from and failed to make too often turned out to be the most dangerous and unwise decisions they made. What makes our work so interesting is that we are not above or beyond the fray. Indeed, in so many compelling ways, the modern university is in the eye of its society's hurricane. Dr. William M. Birenbaum President, Antioch University