Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since then, Berry said, "the University, in my opinion, is really moving. They seem to have a mental commitment to solve this problem." Berry and Harvard officials agree that two specific problems exist...
Although neither side is willing to reveal all the details of specific proposals, they seem to be moving toward an agreement to establish a formal training program for helpers, perhaps one including not only job-skill training, but also any reading, math, or other basic skill training needed by workers...
Such an agreement would also. it seems likely, include more definite criteria for promotion and additional redress for a worker who feels he has been unfairly passed over for promotion by his foreman. At present, he can institute a grievance procedure through the union, but some workers seem reluctant...
...beauty is truth and so the legacies of these efforts, the palatial slabs of stone, are not beautiful. Yet they are not as incongruous as they first seem. What beuer abodes could there be for the thousand upon thousand small-time bureaucrats and journalists that feed upon the beleaguered operation of the state? Washington reeks of lower-echelon bureaucracy. Just as Cambridge reeks of Aeademia and cheap repression and Manhattan of the sham-Literati and Brahmin businessmen, so Washington labors under an oppressive cloud of paperwork and promotions...
...lots of cops on my walk, but most of them were policemen and didn't seem sickened by me, my black arm band, my buttons, or the fact that because of people like me they were standing out there in the cold morning drizzle directing traffic. They smiled back and said "hi" back. And the marshals, freezing all along the route, were good people. Almost all the people were good ones, not rotten apples. But there were lots of not-so-good people sleeping, "ignoring" this childish demonstration...