Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the light in which the author places almost every other thinker, businessman, and institution that crosses his path: dim. Wht saves The Age of Uncertainty from being a history text is the personal touch. Tour-guide Galbraith knows the landscape well, but so well that he can't resist editorializing about each sight. Few are spared as Galbraith talks about the Pentagon ("Were [the Crusades] under the auspices of the Pentagon, it would still be heard that, in the Holy Land, there was light at the end of the tunnel"); conferences of revolutionaries ("By occuring, they persuade the participants...
...last time we'll be riding these happy trails together--until the fall, at least. As the last snows of Spring cascade down from on high all over my typewriter, my horse, and my moped (you can't forget the moped--have you bought yours yet?), I can't resist the urge to wax a little nostalgic, to be a little self-serving for once. I remember the first break I got here this fall. I was just another junior--a regular sort, interested mostly in tutorial papers and chasing mopeds. And then one day, a little magazine that...
...advisors, responsive only to the needs of power. We want a free, open university that is responsive to the needs of the great bulk of the community, and in this sense our struggle is linked to the larger social condition. Thus, it is of the utmost importance that we resist the appointment of Kissinger in the strongest possible way, for he is a symbol as well as a practitioner of what the university should stand against. Instead, Kissinger's personal contempt for academic freedom, as demonstrated by his actions, not his words, makes him unfit...
...looked out across--it was one of those georgeous days when no clouds were on the mountain. And I was pretty emotionally wrought up, and I remember that I could just hardly bring myself to tell Ehrlichman that he had to go because I knew he was going to resist...
...company's position has been that workers do not want unions and that the company has a responsibility to resist them. They cite the fact that the union has lost elections in several plants. But they fail to mention that the company fired union sympathizers and intimidated workers during these campaigns. This not only influenced those elections but chilled the desire for unions in other plants...