Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administrators question the enforceability of the second section of SFAC's resolution which stipulates that an organization "shall be required to discuss its policies at a public meeting" if 500 students petition for such a meeting. The third part of SFAC's resolution (defeated decisively by the Faculty) can be read to say that even those organizations which turned down the petition for a public meeting would only be barred after a second petition asking that they not be allowed on campus...
...asked Geer another question that bothered me, about the political stands of the movement. Yes, said Geer, officially SIMS supported America's actions in Vietnam, although, of course, meditation would eventually eliminate war altogether...
...their eager audiences with repeated assurances that meditation works for everyone, that nothing can go seriously wrong. In fact, every novice must attend lectures given on the three consecutive nights after his initiation, which supposedly are "advance instruction," allowing one to "refine" his technique. In fact, these "lectures" were question-and-answer periods, and gave me my first feelings of uneasiness about the movement...
...seems to glide in slow, repetitive cycles, freezing faces in glaring expressions like kabuki actors: frenzied passion, cross-eyed frustration. Still, what keeps the novel from being another existentialist dead end is the presence of the author. It is finally not the hang-ups of his characters but the questions Mishima asks about them that fascinate-including the ultimate, curiously Japanese question that his novel tests for itself: Can obsession with death, pushed to an extreme, result in some absolute awareness of life...
...heat would put Bob Hayes out of a 100-yd. race even if there were no doubt that he could win the final running backwards. Why do rules mean something else in crew? Would these rules be bent as far as they were for Harvard if the boat in question was from Columbia or Brown? Or would those pious friends of Harvard rowing keep their mouths shut...