Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consulant firms and agencies offer a better opportunity to study the dynamics of change, and in this respect are, according to Labovitz, a "better lab for learning than the university." Research planning firms like Arthur D. Little start with a specific client or problem, identify his objectives, and design a project around a specific need...
...Dean has at his disposal a bureaucracy which can amass all the facts pertinent to proposals. Invariably, then, the Dean is better prepared for debate than are those who oppose his plans. He commands respect by virtue of his detailed knowledge, and closeness to day-to-day affairs...
...hands depends on how he uses his power. The ability to gauge correctly the Faculty's temperature and to act accordingly to the gauge is what, in addition to his purely managerial skill, determines whether the Dean will have the Faculty confidence or not. Since Dean Ford commands overwhelming respect and support from the Faculty as a whole, it is obvious that his use of power has been effective and reasonable...
...rely on force of personality as did Bundy, who could often win his way in Faculty or University matters by wheeling, teasing, outwitting, and anticipating his opponents. Ford does, however, work easily with Pusey in the President's low-keyed, deliberate style, and the two men have great mutual respect. Ford thinks the President is a "courageous" man and cities a number of examples where Pusey has quietly accepted the brunt of public criticism in order to protect another party...
...house" -the Southern-dominated House Rules Committee, which can stop almost any bill from reaching a floor vote. But as Author Wicker tells it, Kennedy thus learned too well that Government is a matter of "men, not measures." Seeking more support, he wooed Southern segregationists, and lost Northern-liberal respect in the process-most notably after he had succumbed to Roman Catholic pressure groups by offering federal aid to parochial schools in his education legislation. When the bills died in 1961, amid the Bay of Pigs disaster, says Wicker, Kennedy lost Congress-and at his death in 1963, was widely...