Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Close Watch. Still, though they may not have observed protocol-or in some cases the Constitution-it is not so easy to contend that the Chief Executives were always wrong. In the summer of 1940, for instance, President Roosevelt had good reason to believe that American destroyers might prove decisive in defeating a German invasion of Britain; a British defeat would have brought the U.S. into the gravest peril. Yet Congress probably would not have approved the transaction for weeks or months, if at all. Congress is oftentimes hostage to parochial interests, while the President has the national constituency...
Both Ralph Abernathy, the civil rights leader who had supported the strike to the point of going to jail, and Moe Foner, secretary of the organizing committee for the Drug and Hospital Employees Union, were pleased by the outcome. They had good reason. The strike renewed the partnership between the labor and civil rights movements and represented a much needed victory for the advocates of activist nonviolence. The union's objective is to organize the nation's 1,500,000 nonprofessional hospital workers, many of whom are black. As the settlement was being announced, union men were...
...housing problem in this city. We have a markedly abnormal real estate market, influenced by forces unique to Cambridge. We have intense pressure on existing housing, and inflation in the price of it. We have a relatively inactive new construction market, in spite of intense demand. Part of the reason for this is that Cambridge is already a densely developed city, Scarcity and cost of land on which to expand the supply of housing is a constant barrier. We have families forced to leave Cambridge, or to tolerate poor housing conditions at continually increasing rents, because they have no other...
...might very well have left for another reason; I left for this...
...this, ultimately, is the reason I left my romantic comrades in University Hall. They were enjoying themselves too much. Had they been in pain, I might have been able to stay, as an existential being crying out against an oppressive world I did not really hope to change. And then I would have been justified in quoting Camus. True, one must imagine Sisyphus happy, but only while he experiences "boundless grief" which is "too heavy to bear...