Word: randomly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Instead of right or left, we're high; we're the radical up," said Minister of Information Barton Lane '69 of the group's politics. He added that he had been selected at random to be an officer...
...report, entitled "Crisis at Columbia" and secretly printed by Random House in eight days, will go on sale today. It will cost 25 cents at Columbia, and $1.95 everywhere else...
...millions of voters who are understandably and legitimately dismayed by random crime, burning ghettos, disrupted universities and violent demonstrations in downtown streets, law and order is a rallying cry that evokes quieter days. To some, it is also a shorthand message promising repression of the black community. To the Negro, already the most frequent victim of violence, it is a bleak warning that worse times may be coming...
...black leadership. "Permissiveness will do us in," says Reading, "and the Kerner answer was permissiveness." To this, New York Mayor John Lindsay, who was vice chairman of the Kerner commission, replies that if repression becomes society's reaction to disorder, "we might then have to choose between the random terror of the criminal and the official terror of the state...
Since they cannot get grades abolished, staff members want a system "substantially separated from the student's performance in the course." This bit of euphemistic phrasing means a nonsense or random grading system: pulling grades out of a hat or giving everyone in a section the same grade. Individual sectionmen have been surreptitiously deviating from the merit grading system for years. But now the 148 sectionmen have brought the whole issue into the open...