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...John R. Moot '43 worries about Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty...
...whole program can become totally discredited, If too many politicians grab hold of it, it becomes nothing more than a big pork-barrel." The possibility of failure also Moot: "There is an immediate danger of 'Overpromise.'" It would be more than demoralizing, he says, "to work in employment programs with 100 kids and then be able to place only 10 per cent of them jobs...
Lord Jim is the story of a blue-eyed, boyish sailor whose dreams of glory are lost at sea. Joseph Conrad's intricate turn-of-the-century novel expands a solitary act of cowardice into a moot question about every man's moral identity. As chief mate of the Patna, a leaky old steamer with some 800 Moslem pilgrims aboard, Jim joins his panicky crew in abandoning ship at the threat of a gale, only to meet disgrace when the doomed tub rides it out unattended. Thereafter Conrad's hero drags the ghost of his honor through...
...charged at a public hearing that Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot '43, co-chairman of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive, did just that by their references to "politicians" and "contractors" in many of their public statements against the underpasses...
...comedians Bill Cosby, Nipsey Russell and Dick Gregory, he is in all respects a headliner, working the best places, such as San Francisco's hungry i and Hollywood's Crescendo. Cosby, a tall and soft-spoken former Temple University halfback, refuses to make racial jokes, on the moot ground that they demean the race. He talks about kindergarten and old radio shows instead, and sets up an imaginary football game between college boys and mature gorillas. Nipsey Russell claims that he similarly tries to avoid racial humor, but his act often makes use of it nonetheless...