Word: moved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next Move. The next move is up to Fortas. No one in Washington is satisfied with his cursory reply to the LIFE article, in which he omitted even any mention of the amount of the fee he had received from the Wolfson Foundation. The reply, said one Washington lawyer, "raised more questions than it answered." Although Fortas stonily refused further comment, he will have to explain his actions more fully if he expects to avoid an investigation. Any move to impeach him would come from the House Judiciary Committee. Its chairman, Representative Emanuel Celler, said that he would give Fortas...
...President ruled out unilateral withdrawal and said that such a move would be betraying his office, since it would not guarantee a permanent peace. He also excluded the possibility of a "disguised defeat" at the negotiating table, and said "prestige is not an empty word...
...that period, any remaining outside forces would move into enclaves and would not engage in combat operations...
THERE ARE REAL troubles in society and in the human heart which foster disturbances on campuses, and we have a gigantic task to face up to them, if we are to move toward the eradication or amelioration of the manifold blemishes of our society in such a way as to recall the distressed and angry, young and old, to work patiently and seriously together, charitably, and reasonably and on a basis of knowledge, in a fresh effort to build a satisfying society that will stir and elicit loyalty...
...better society. It is for this reason that I urge you to refrain from precipitate legislation at this time, though recognizing your desire to be helpful. Clarification is on the way. Wills and resolve are stiffening. Those who understand learning and care for it are coming together. Academic communities move slowly to defend themselves. They are almost endlessly tolerant. But the new barbarism will be repulsed. Our institutions will not be surrendered. In a sense universities live for dissent. In less anxious times they encourage and welcome it. But they are not so complacent or other-worldly that they...