Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, the major issue may prove to be the largely unspoken but undeniable reaction of many white Americans against the Negro's gains and demands in the civil rights movement, an emotion-charged response encompassed by the catchall phrase "white backlash." A recent Republican poll shows that more than half the U.S. electorate feels that the Democratic Administration has moved too fast on civil rights; equally significant, some 60% of all Negroes acknowledge that their cause has been damaged by recent rioting and black-power militance. The race issue endangers liberals of both parties-a fact, ironically enough, that...
...observe its 75th anniversary. A few weeks earlier, M.I.T. (enrollment 7,400) inaugurated a new president, Economist Howard Wesley Johnson, 44. As each school looks inward, it also stares across the 2,600 miles between Pasadena and Cambridge with what an M.I.T. professor terms "interested tension"-a polite phrase for one of academe's hottest and healthiest rivalries...
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Hoffman had refused to sign the petition at first because the original draft had included a clause accusing the Kennedy Institute of fostering only "dominant Administration opinion." The phrase was later delated and Hoffman signed...
According to Ackerman a policy with those qualifications would not prevent a repetition of the Carmichael incident. She and the Committee liberals support an amendment offered last night by Francis H. Duehay, assistant dean of the Ed School, which would strike the phrase "deems in the interest of the community" and leave the Committee with power to reject only speakers that might incite a riot...