Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should add too that I sided with the so-called FSM minority of moderates which while agreeing with the objective of the FSM with respect to campus regulations did not believe that the cause required the use of civil disobedience on campus. I have argued that the cause of civil liberties on the Berkeley campus had made considerable progress in the years before the FSM by the regular tactics of normal campus politics, i.e., petitions, picketing, mass rallies, and participation in student council elections. I believe that the efforts to get the administration to drop the remaining objectionable regulations would...
...University assigned Negro and white students together as roommates. Students are given the opportunity to change roommates after the school year begins, and all of the mixed groups elected to split up. Nonetheless, it is clear that the University has adopted a policy of color-blindness, at least with respect to housing...
...semblance of unity among politicians who may have no more in common than the side of the aisle on which they sit. His argument, in effect, is that people with widely varying beliefs can belong to the same church (Republican), as long as they pay the minimum measure of respect expected of God-fearing men -- attendance, dues, or perhaps merely resting on Sunday...
Wind & Surf. Barrow is luckier than some of his West Indian neighbors in at least one respect: there is no hint of any interest in Communism among the Bajans, who are 98% literate and exhibit an easygoing gentility. Race relations are good, although the whites, who make up only 8% of the population, control most of the island's wealth. Easternmost of the West Indies, Barbados is kept at a comfortable 70° to 85° year round by the trade winds, has fine beaches-with Atlantic surf on one side and the calm, clear Caribbean on the other...
Gradual Change. Next to Scandinavia's social problems, Connery believes, foreigners least understand its approach to welfare. Actually, Scandinavia is no longer so extraordinary in this respect, since all the more prosperous West European countries are as much welfare states as Sweden or Denmark. "The U.S., while clinging to its old notions of every-man-for-himself, spends more money on welfare than any nation in history," he says. What makes Scandinavia unique, he declares, is that its social benefits have accumulated slowly over almost a century, with no particular impetus in the past three decades. He argues that...