Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Very Hopeful. Though Truman staunchly backed him up in his battles with Congress, Lilienthal decided to resign in 1950. His last important act in office was to oppose the crash program to build the hydrogen bomb. Along with most of the members of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, including Robert Oppenheimer, James Conant, Lee DuBridge and Enrico Fermi, Lilienthal objected to the bomb because he felt that the U.S. was relying too heavily on nuclear weapons and massive retaliation. He was also hopeful (but not very) that some agreement could be made with Russia not to build...
...signal the start of a new regime, every presidential appointee in the Administration sent the President the traditional letter of resignation, and he is, of course, free to pick up any or all of them. But if Lyndon Johnson means to rebuild his team, he is certainly going about it slowly and cautiously. The word last week was that the President is seeking no major Cabinet changes, at least for the present, although Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, HEW's Boss Anthony Celebrezze, and CIA Director John McCone all may resign soon. Nor is Johnson rushing to fill the vacancy...
...himself prepared a speech for broadcast to the nation, threatening to resign rather than form a new government on the basis of the election. Then, at the last minute he cancelled the address, and joined a cabinet meeting in search of some form of compromise. But at week's end, Nigeria's unity still hung by a thread...
Tiny Alice, by Edward Albee, is a delaying action of adroit theatricality designed to conceal a clutter of confused thought. Albee preaches "resign yourself to the mysteries," but in this quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama he practices only mystification. He brings the playgoer through the Nietzschean revelation that "God is dead" to the Sartrean discovery of the absurdity of existence. Albee adds that man creates God in his own image, a profundity he presumably shares with many sophomores, past and present. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wool)? rang with the brassy gong of reality; Tiny Alice is a tinny allegory...
OCTOBER--After more months of arduous debate, the Faculty established a new program of non-DEPARTMENTAL Education at Rindge Tech. Astonished at the near-unanimous vote, Dean Ford decides that the conflict between the college and the departments has been resolved "fairly conclusively." Members of the Doty Committee resign in a huff and go as Peace Corps advisors to Peru, "where our ideas on General Education will be appreciated...