Word: outspokenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campuses these days resound to a chorus of cries for student power. But what role do the students want to play in influencing university affairs? Some youthful revolutionaries, of course, are simply using the university as a platform to assault U.S. society as a whole, and even the most outspoken advocates of student power stop short of wanting to govern a university. Basically, today's undergraduate rebels hope to be taken seriously as a responsible voice in shaping their university-which means influencing basic policy decisions, securing better teachers, helping create a more meaningful curriculum, and insisting on autonomy...
...Always outspoken and never involved in personal vendettas, he even managed to charm Joseph Stalin during his Moscow service, but at war's end found the aims of Communism and the U.S. "irreconcilable." Calm and courtly, Harriman became a bridge expert at Yale (class of 1913), coached crew and rowed in the same shell with Dean Acheson, later was an eight-goal polo player at Long Island's Meadow Brook club. Even today, dismounted, the slim six-footer is acknowledged by Hobe Sound (Fla.) residents to be a champion croquet strategist...
...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Youth '68-Everything's Changing. . . or Maybe It Isn't" is a visual and sound montage juxtaposing outspoken opinions on love, religion, drugs and war with the sights and sounds of popular music and dance. Interviews with the Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and The Papas and the Vanilla Fudge...
...abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle for equality-and have allowed the movement to fall into militant secular hands. Like many white churches, Negro congregations have found themselves alienated from skeptical youth-and teen-age looters in the recent riots were clearly...
...Mister!" Mercurial Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was far mon outspoken. Asked by a reporter if South Viet Nam was willing to make any concessions in order to facilitate a peace settlement, he shot back, "No, Mister!"He was also adamant on the issue that troubles the South Vietnamese most: that the U.S. will try to force them to form a coalition government with the Viet Cong. Cried Ky: "If we have now arrived at the stage where we have to accept coalition under American pressure, that means we are going to die in the next five or six months...