Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belief of all members of the Committee that actions which abrogate an individual's personal rights, and especially those which provide a physical threat to his person, cannot be tolerated in any free association like the University if that community is to survive. Regardless of whether injury is inflicted, the use of force or threat of violence introduces an element of fear which makes it impossible for many members of the University to continue their work unhindered. The Committee also feels that an obstructive demonstration, even apart from the element of force or violence, can substantially impede the work...
...that lendsaura to the words, a spirit whose influence is as strong and accessible to us all as the spirit of social activism. Depending on his sentiments and nature, an individual may allow either spirit to affect him, parts of both, or neither at all. But it a person does nothing, his bonds with either spirit can never be more intellectual: the important ingredient is action. The ?hos of dropping out informs and guides us only as we act. It is certainly guiding us now as we drop out of school, and it is informing our expectations of what...
...attitudes toward the mentally retarded, the difference between intellectual and emotional maturity, and the essence of human dignity. The author shows here a masterly ability to handle sensitive insights, pathos, humor, and scientific technicalities in a wonderfully enlightening blend. One cannot close this book without having become a better person than when he opened...
Rather than a vote, with its inevitably ambiguous interpretations, considered statements on the floor of the Faculty meeting or in letters to the President would seem to be a more appropriate and more useful form of faculty expression and advice. In this way each interested person could indicate what policy consideration he believed to be decisive...
...cards, and the customers waited outside as the machine recorded its insights on blue-and-white striped paper monogrammed with a starry "A." I walked up, introduced myself, and began talking to Michael Lutin, one of the astrologers who works there. He explained to me that astrology locates a person as a specific point in time and space, and then describes his "potential harmony." Lutin, like Astroflash, was very careful to emphasize that astrology is not a for tune-telling device. As Astroflash puts it: "Above all." remember that while the stars influence, they do not summarily dictate your future...