Word: originated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a danger that must be nipped in the bud, otherwise it might destroy all of the gains against Communism in South Viet Nam. It is the decision of the provisional Legislative Council to authorize new citizens of Chinese origin to stand for provincial councils and for Parliament only five years after acquiring Vietnamese citizenship. Under Ngo Dinh Diem's regime, the Chinese here were at first prevented from practicing dozens of professions. Such a prohibition was soon neutralized by a decision to give masses of them Vietnamese citizenship, thus making deeper and steadier Chinese control over...
Furthermore, I am in favor of the civil rights movement. But I feel that the rush of clergy to join it in the 'sixties can be, and in many cases is, of purely secular origin. For a Massachusetts Baptist to be pro-integration, as for an Alabama Baptist to be prosegregation, may be nothing more than a response to what the society around him expects of him. Sociologist Peter L. Berger develops this theme at length in The Noise of Solemn Assemblies, Doubleday, 1961. The whole raison d'etre of Protestant Christianity lies in obedience to an authoritative divine revelation...
...year term as the first chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an agency created under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The board begins its official function on July 2, investigating specific complaints of job discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin or sex among labor unions or employers with 25 or more workers. Beyond "informal methods of conference, conciliation and persuasion," the commission cannot do much about intransigent violators except to wait for already overworked Civil Rights Division lawyers in the Justice Department to bring suits...
Miss Caroline won the award for a diary she wrote entitled "Notes on My Twentieth Year." Awards were also made to Grace A. Gregory '66, for a paper "The Origin and Formation of Meteorites," Elisabeth L. Hackner '65, for a poem "Beaufort, 1898," and Anne Hebald '66, for a paper "The Sun, Line and Cave Allegories in the Republic of Plato: A Cyclical Theory." Honorable mentions went to Caroline G. Balderston '66 and L. Ann Cameron...
...mystery of the man -gilt-bound tomes of Balzac and Schiller next to a pile of toys that he amuses himself with: a soccer game, a Yo-Yo, a gun that shoots pingpong balls. And everywhere there are model train locomotives, which he collects in honor of his origin. He used his earnings of about $2,800 per performance to buy an $80,000 walled-in villa tucked away in the mountains above Monte Carlo, where he spends two or three months out of the year...