Word: processes
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...importance of voting shouldn't be overplayed. But perhaps you can glean a little existential satisfaction out of the process of indicating one of your decisions. So when you do vote, the process has to have some ostensible meaning. You have to have a Grand Plan which can count towards effecting some sort of result (so your act can have meaning) and which will give some purpose to your participating in the process (so your act will have a meaning). Here...
Those issues, he said, were three: the war, the "militarization of our foreign policy and almost of our whole political life," and the problem of making the political process work...
Conscientious Objector. By now, the boiling controversy has become an open struggle for power by the U.F.T., which fears that control of the schools is moving from the city's central board to local committees, and that the union is being weakened in the process. As he fights to protect his union, Albert Shanker is demonstrating that he is a shrewd and sophisticated student of the uses of power. A onetime Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Columbia, he is an admirer of Elijah Jordan, an obscure American philosopher who argued that institutions, not individuals, mold a society...
General Counsel Carter was quick to point out that Steel's provocative article contained criticisms of the court that he and other staff members have often made in print. Claiming that the association has denied its own attorney the same due process that it tries to assure for Negroes, Carter sent an ultimatum to the board demanding that Steel be reinstated before noon on Oct. 21. N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, who was away on a vacation cruise during the board vote, told Carter that his action was "inappropriate," but other civil libertarians took a different view. They admitted...
...favor of taking a look at the whole election process," Brown said. Last spring several student directors suggested that students vote for their representatives on the Board but the discussion had been postponed during the summer, he added...