Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote. Richard Ichord (D-Mo.), the new chairman of HUAC (or HISC), had little reason to expect such heavy opposition from the liberals. The "un-American" in HUAC's old name had been a fighting word to them, a chauvinist smear. The New Republic, for example, editorialized: "At present a lot of Congressmen vote funds for the committee lest they be called unpatriotic. Drop the scare word and the spell breaks." But opponents of the bill feared that a new name would make HUAC more respectable. As the real aims of the bill became clearer, they fought to save...
Ichord, a polite moderate, contends that his purpose in changing names was to clarify the mandate of his committee. To the Rules committee he said, "The present mandate is admittedly ambiguous. It gives rise to the thought that the Committee is concerned with political ideas. I am not interested in any witch hunt...or pillorying anybody for unorthodox thoughts...
...still vague, but college administrators have been meeting since January 1 with Model Cities Administrator Paul Parks to plan just how each would be able to contribute to the effort. The main source of funds will be the Boston Model Cities program, which provided for a community college. Parks' present plan is to have each university provide a specific program. The new college would take anyone who applied, including high school dropouts and middle-aged housewives...
...Radcliffe College Council--which sets official administrative policy--is an eleven-member body including Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, Kathleen O. Elliott, vice-president and dean of the College, and certain trustees, all of whom were already present for the trustees' meeting...
...Catcher in the Rye, it was really just a narrative device, just an excuse for the telling of a story. In the case of Portnoy, we never forget that he is lying on the couch. He is recreating the past from a specific, highly-emotional point in the present. Emotion recollected in tranquillity turns into hysteria. Each time Portnoy's mother Sophie reappears, another bit of horror is added. Portnoy justifies it all by saying she wears "the old self-conscious on her sleeve!" In any case, she soon seemed to me more like the witch out of Disney...