Word: regents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult for earnest seekers after the truth to be real persons." It urges evangelists to seek "people before converts." That did not sit too well with the Salvation Army, for whom soul winning is still the basic objective. Worse yet, the author was Salvation Army Major Fred Brown of Regent Hall, one of the Army's oldest centers in London...
...Louvre. There visitors are free to ramble past acres of pearly, naked flesh and hectares of jewels and velvet, observing Marie, attended by nymphs, monsters, peacocks, courtiers, gods, satyrs and angels, as she makes a near mythological progress from a shaky Italian girlhood to the role of Queen Regent for Louis XIII. This huge book-the year's most fabulous-acquaints the reader with the history and shows off the art far better than any number of visits to the Louvre...
...Regent Erwin, who was appointed to the board by Governor John Connally in 1963, is a rich, 50-year-old Austin lawyer, a longtime crony of Lyndon Johnson's, and a former Democratic National Committeeman. He is now emperor of the University of Texas. His idea of a great university is one where teachers teach, students study and regents govern at his direction. His strict construction of those views has kept him at constant odds with students and faculty...
That decision was not likely to be final. There are outspoken dissenters among the regents themselves. Said Fred Dutton, a liberal regent, of the majority decision. "The Angela Davis charade is a con game to mislead the people of this state." Moreover, a majority of students and faculty members has lined up on Angela's side. U.C.L.A.'s academic senate, composed solely of faculty members, expressing "our shock, our dismay, our rage," voted to defy the regents by taking steps to keep Miss Davis on the faculty...
...Miss Davis, citing resolutions going back to 1940 that barred Communists from the faculty. Taking its cue from recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, a Los Angeles superior court held those resolutions unconstitutional. While Miss Davis kept on teaching, Governor Reagan and his not-so-Silent Majority of regents mounted a campaign of invective, to which she vigorously responded in kind. If Young decides to reappoint her, says conservative Regent John Canaday, "all hell's going to break loose...