Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court that had seemed safely in the hands of activists?or judicial liberals?now seems destined for a somewhat less ambitious role that may last far longer than the Nixon administration. Though there is unlikely to be a sudden shift in direction, the differences could in time be profound. "We are under a Constitution," Charles Evans Hughes remarked before he himself became Chief Justice, "but the Constitution is what the judges...
Detroit is running an $8.9 million recreation program, and the police, who came in for heavy criticism for their role in the 1967 rioting, are preparing their own sports program for youth...
...Gunfighter is not it. In a town settling into the 20th century, stallions mix with horseless carriages and Mazda bulbs compete with gaslight. The contrast of periods is minor compared with the clutch of anachronisms offered by the script. Among them: police brutality, strained race relations, the lowly role of the Jew in society, adolescent sex, and finally the message, delivered by the county sheriff: "Frank Patch is your conscience, and you're afraid...
Roger W. Brown, head of the Soc Rel Department, said that the committee would insure that the course was not "a thing apart from the department." He felt that the advisory board could serve two purposes: first, it would play a consultative and advisory role for the staff and, second, it would increase communications between the course and the department. After the decision, Jack Stauder '61, instructor in Social Anthropology and head of Soc Rel 149, would not make a definite statement about whether he intended to continue the course next year. He called the three-member supervisory group...
...write the Statutes which regulate Harvard's internal affairs. Because these rules are so general, each faculty's responsibility within the university has long been a matter of custom rather than regulation. After the controversy over ROTC, the Committee might wish to re-write the Statutes of clarify the role of the faculties and their relations with the Governing Boards. The Statutes should probably also be revised to contain any new provisions for selecting members of the Corporation and Overseers; these reforms can now be made only by the Governing Boards...