Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it must have realized the implications of the experiment, the Central Board, incredibly enough, never told the three experimental boards precisely what powers they had. Thus, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district in Brooklyn felt that it was well within its rights in transferring 19 professionals last spring for supposed "sabotage." Union President Albert Shanker, 40, angrily called his teachers out of the area in protest, and the district hobbled along with a handful of nonstriking teachers and bewildered volunteer helpers for the rest of the academic year. The Negro community vowed that none of the 350 strikers would ever...
...doing to crush this beautiful thing. We have been floating around in this sea of negativism for too long. People don't have the courage to face the fact that the status quo just hasn't worked. Instead, they get themselves frightened by such ideas as Black Power and militancy. It's not that at all. It is just a simple matter of accountability...
...arbitrarily-Shanker appears now to want something entirely different. "Teachers have been castrated," he told TIME Reporter Peter Babcox. "Until now, teachers' organizations have played around with piddling little things. There is need for upheaval, for revolutionary change. Innovation in education is not enough. You have to have power." Reasonable speculation was that Shanker, ambitious for both his own and his teachers' future, might want not only to lead all the teachers in the U.S., but to head a union that would embrace all white-collar workers and professionals as well...
...inept, melodramatic handling of the transit strike during his first days in office. A pattern of hostility between city employees and the Mayor's office was set and has lasted to this day. Basically, the problem is one of attitude. In the face of threats from the "power brokers," Lindsay asserts principle; labor leaders call it inflexibility and priggishness. "It's this upper-white-class Protestant ethic that gives him a feeling of moral superiority," says Martin Morgenstern, head of the Social Service Employes Union. "He's like the white knight come to save...
...Russians doubtlessly also calculated that the storm of protest by other Communist parties would soon subside, just as it did after Hungary in 1956. After all, the tradition of loyalty to the "Motherland of the Revolution" is long, emotional and prudent. As the world's second greatest power, Russia can provide better than anyone else the money, arms and technical aid that struggling Communists in other countries need...