Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A pitiless exposure of poverty among Puerto Rican Americans, whose life stories are told largely by the subjects themselves into Anthropologist Lewis' tape recorder...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. Anthropologist Lewis' tape-recorded view of Mexican poverty, gathered at its roots in The Children of Sanchez, cut considerably more deeply than most sociology goes. This time the compelling scene is poverty among the Puerto Ricans, and it is unrelievedly ugly...
...finally realized, was to toss it out and get a new form of government. Last week they did that, and did it peacefully. In a quiet, orderly referendum, the country's 1,200,000 voters decided to return to a single, one-man .presidency. The new President is Oscar Gestido, 65, a scrupulously honest, mild-mannered ex-Air Force general whose liberal Colorado Party swept into power for the first time in eight years...
...Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who introduced the tabling motion, said that the Faculty, as a collective body, should not take a position "on a matter of abstract principle, in either educational, social or political policy." To raise the issue of the draft again this year would require a majority vote to take the original anti-2-S resolution from the table...
...Sciences met to consider a resolution offered by 16 professors that woudl have declared the 2-S deferment "unjust." Unfortunately, the Faculty--in its most highly attended meeting in years--did not get the chance to discuss the issue. Just after the resolution was introduced, Dean Ford recognized Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who asked that the entire matter be tabled. Under parliamentary procedure, there is no debate on a motion to table. A vote was quickly taken, the motion was passed, and the Faculty left the meeting an hour before the mandatory adjournment hour...