Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bring the Radical Education Project (REP) to Chicago and place it under the control of the national office. REP is the formal publishing and theoretical organ of SDS--one member calls it the radical equivalent of the RAND Corporation--and was set up in Ann Arbor as a semi-autonomous unit, for tax purposes...
DeGuglielmo took the action at the request of the Citizens Advisory Committee, a semi-autonomous consulting group composed of Cambridge business, institutional, and professional leaders. The CAC, which includes President Pusey and Howard Johnson, president of M.I.T., is considering recommending an urban renewal project for the entire area...
...dies, he waits a second, and then yawns a fine Ed Sullivan "Ho-o-okay. . ." A sudden thought-either his or a guest's-will launch him into an imitation of Jona than Winters imitating an old granny. He can spread his eyes wide open into a wow. Semi-emancipated puritan that he is (he was reared a Methodist), he can, when a guest goes off-color, freeze his face into a blank that shows nothing but eyes and innocence. He is performer and critic, rapping out a whole percussion section of effects to suit a funny line...
...banned the teaching of German in 25 states, cheered sweeping federal raids on 60,000 "radicals" in 1920, and even put over Prohibition as a "war measure." In World War II, the Supreme Court itself approved the most drastic invasion of constitutional rights in history-the 1942 "relocation" in semi-concentration camps of 112,000 West Coast Japanese, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens by birth...
Besides Barnes and Kroll, other members of the new executive committee are William Schaeffer '68, vice-president and director of intercollegiate affairs; Barbara Sard '68, director of new programs; and Aida Chang '68, secretary. Andrew M. Gilman '68, and Donald M. Berwick '68 will evaluate and coordinate the semi-autonomous committees of PBH--a function which two vice-presidents performed last year