Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As usual, Pusey was far behind the students and the Faculty. 2700 people had voted two days before Pusey's statement to put the University on strike, joining over 300 other schools around the country. The Faculty voted optional pass-fail and credit grades on courses to free students for...
Firmer Command. To the often-squabbling U.S. labor movement, Reuther's death may bring a period of surface calm. Although he helped mightily to negotiate the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger in 1955, Reuther was a constant disturber of the peace within the federation, needling its officials to conduct bigger organizing...
Sir: Justice Douglas' Points of Rebellion is comparable to the writings of Burke, Hume and Locke-Englishmen who brought attention to the need for reform. Britain ignored the pleas and warnings, and the American Revolution resulted. I teach history and sometimes think it is a waste of time. Instead...
It is possible to interpret such passages as pleas for reforms that the U.S. must undertake in order to forestall more bitterness and violence. In fact, Douglas urges "political regeneration," not revolution. But the book's perfervid tone and fuzzy phrasing-hardly appropriate from a Supreme Court Justice-garble...
His words signaled the end of the Kennedy-Johnson strategy of "jawboning" -exerting presidential pressure against individual wage and price increases that the White House deemed excessive. Nixon has addressed some generalized pleas to labor and management, but he has not defined his guidelines. Neither he nor his advisers have...