Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ransom Notes. So far, the money has been moving on what the Pearson report calls a somewhat sloppy "trial and error" basis. The have-nots have made an art of what aid experts call the "ransom note" approach (hinting that they will warm up to Moscow, say, if the U.S. starts getting stingy). The haves play "puppetry" with the strings they attach to aid deals (the U.S., for example requires aid recipients to oppose the seating of Red China...
...Richter scale-the bay area's biggest jolt in twelve years. A few of the less courageous and persevering opera devotees headed for the exits, but most stayed on to hear the diva finish with the phrase addio senza rancore (goodbye without regret). "We never missed a note," said Dorothy proudly, "but I kept thinking about those last words in the aria...
...particular people therein, including its highest official, are not speaking for oneself. This role being vigorously denied to the elected leaders of the nation, how much more so will it, then, to gathered colleagues who are simply registering their opinions without the slightest pretensions of speaking for anyone else. (Note that President Cordier of Columbia, whose University Senate just passed such an anti-war resolution as is being pro posed to the Harvard faculty-at Columbia a student-faculty-administration Senate takes care of such matters-noted categorically that the resolution "does not speak for the University." NY Times...
...Politics Note: College students in the Boston area were informed by a circular that a radical named Michael Harrington was running for Congress against a "superhawk." Student volunteers saw a Harrington victory as a good omen for the October Moratorium. Many were certain that this Michael Harrington was the Michael Harrington who wrote The Other America and Toward a Democratic Left. No, that man is another Michael Harrington. The Sixth District may not be ready...
...History will be glad to note that 41 of them actually supported the spirit of the resolution, and only three thought it was a bad idea to take even a personal stand against the war. But the gap between the 230 people who opposed the resolution at the Faculty meeting and the 44 who were left at convocation time hints at a few of the convocation's woes...