Word: press
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quibble about one word; however, this one word is very important. In your cover story on "Rage and Reform on Campus" [April 18], you quote me as characterizing the style of the university by rationality and stability. Actually, the wire services earlier made the same error in reporting a press conference here. Probably it's my own fault for not enunciating more clearly. The word I actually used was civility, which is much more important for universities today than stability. Civility becomes increasingly vital if university people-faculty, students and administration-are to discuss instead of demand, reason rather...
...Peking. He has a good excuse: the Chinese barely acknowledged North Korea's 20th-anniversary celebrations last year, and during the carefree days of Red Guard rioting Kim was assailed as a "disciple of Khrushchev" and a "fat revisionist." Until late last week, in fact, the Peking press had failed to report a single detail of North Korea's latest anti-American escapade...
Under Dubček, Czechoslovaks experienced an exhilarating release from 20 years of police-state repression. New laws were enacted that granted rights ranging from freedom of the press and speech to the privilege of traveling abroad and emigrating. Artistic and political expression bloomed, and the country pulsed with hope and excitement. But Czechoslovakia's new ebullience frightened the Soviet and other East Bloc leaders, who feared that their own people would demand similar reforms. At a Warsaw Pact summit meeting in Dresden in March 1968, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht reportedly waved his arms ominously over the other...
...challenged by risk taking - and he knows how to reckon the odds. Such a man is obviously valu able to any economy, but he is also rare. Is there a way to develop him? In Motivating Economic Achievement, to be published this month by The Free Press of Manhattan, Psychologists McClelland and David G. Winter of Wesleyan University argue that the seeds of entrepreneurship can be planted with almost ridiculous ease...
...whether we are aware of it or not." William Hinton, author of Fanshen, a book about agricultural reform in revolutionary China, told a receptive audience, "We will not survive unless we have a strong revolutionary movement." Orville Schell, a newly elected co-ordinator of CCAS from Berkeley, told the press that the group came together in an "attempt to wed scholarship with politics and action...