Word: needed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculty. "Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily," wrote La Rochefoucauld. The talk of "fuel margins" and EVAs is, in part, a way of giving the eyes a rest. Moreover, each astronaut has the kind of test-pilot fatalism that calms -and deadens-the nerves. They need it. In the past, there were more imagined terrors to be dispelled. Today, the known dangers of failure, mechanical and human, are more numerous and harder to dismiss. The astronauts knew that if, on landing, the lunar module tilted more than 35°, they would be marooned on the moon...
Though Nixon pledged that the program would not be forced on individuals against their beliefs, an official of the New York Catholic archdiocese charged that it would add "an implicit pressure" on welfare mothers to accept. A Florida N.A.A.C.P. leader also criticized the program on the grounds that blacks "need to produce more babies, not less," for added political power. The plan, however, drew praise from many family planning and demographic experts and from the Episcopal bishop of California, C. Kilmer Myers. Indeed, unless the birth rate is cut, U.S. population (now more than 200 million) will exceed 300 million...
...victim of the plague, was clearly intended to portray Napoleon as the modern hero sans pareil. But the picture is redeemed by the sharply observed bodies of the stricken. David would probably have laid the scene in a bare hospital room, and Gros considered just that. But feeling the need tor a more theatrical setting for his hero, he conceived of a Moorish courtyard looking out on the ramparts of the city. When the painting was shown in the Salon of 1804, younger artists wreathed it in laurel...
...began with an emotion verbalized--"Goddamn I'm tired of this lily white school with its Romance Languages and English Literature. We got to it together. Man we need some Black studies and awhole lot of other changes." It continued with a plan crystalized--"On strike for the '5 Demands'--shut it down". And then the Administration responded--"Get those Blacks off our land. We don't have to pay attention to them. "We'll negotiate with them to keep them quiet; then, we'll reject it all and tell them we tried." And the brothers responded "Come on down...
...solution to the budget cut that President Gallagher proposes--cutting both the "regular freshman" and SEEK classes in half--a valid solution or should need and ability to go elsewhere for an education be considered in admitting students...