Word: responded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward the Ticket. When some 300 students from dilapidated, predominantly Negro Bowie State College appeared at the Statehouse to protest their school's condition, Agnew refused to see them, ordered out the state police, who arrested 227. "I was not going to respond while they were putting the pressure on," Agnew said. Curiously, the Governor had already doubled the school's budget and added capital funds to upgrade the college. What annoyed him was that the demonstrators had failed to make an appointment with him. Agnew cherishes a routine governed by an appointments calendar as neatly arranged as the rows...
...hypocritical. At the other extreme are a few parents who introduce their children to pot in the home in the same way that countless parents start their children drinking. One San Francisco attorney turns on all three of his children, including his six-year-old. Still other parents respond by taking a kindlier view of early drinking, in hopes that their children will find liquor an acceptable alternative to pot. That ploy often fails, mainly because so many youths are convinced that marijuana is less harmful than "juice...
...Cash, a top concert attraction at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall as well as Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. "We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dun geon," he says, "and they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look ing at 36, sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck. Though he is not an ex-con himself, his empathy with jailbirds is a natural...
...matter how much economists slide-rule the economy, many imponderables remain. One is the U.S. corporation and how it will respond to another swerve in policy. The surtax will have some bad effects for companies: it will cut into corporate profits and decrease spending for improvements. At the same time, the new tax ought to make some change in the tenor of company-union relations. Up to now, when labor negotiations are fiercer than usual, the advantage has been with labor. With full employment and rising prices, unions have been able to negotiate contracts with an average increase...
WILLIAM STYRON'S NAT TURNER: TEN BLACK WRITERS RESPOND. Edited by John Henrik Clarke. 120 pages. Beacon Press...