Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong to read too much significance into the target shift of the Left's offensive from the Government to the University. The overwhelming SDS vote to concentrate on Harvard meant mainly that it was a far easier and a far safer target for action at the time. If activists had been serious about moving against the University--and they should have been--plans would have been made longer in advance, the day for the Massachusetts Hall sit-in would have been the day of a corporation meeting, demands would have been set, real investigations into Harvard's finances would have...
...House-appointed Clark Panel-recommended changing the order of call from the present oldest first to 19-year-olds first. The new law empowered the President to make that change but severely limited his choice of a new selection system. It prohibited random selection as well as a shift that would call the youngest men first in ascending age sequence. He could have chosen to induct men from any or all of the seven eligible age groups (19 to 25 years) but was compelled to draft the oldest men first within each group chosen...
...Rembrandt) were hideously bloodsplattered. His landscapes were wildly out of perspective. Yet today, a quarter of a century after his death (at the age of 50 in Paris), Soutine no longer seems an ec centric maverick; instead he has be come a mainstream figure in 20th cen art. The shift in judgment has been largely caused by the emergence of the New York school of abstract expressionism, whose leaders built with the same slapdash compulsiveness...
...eight years as chancellor, U.C.L.A. has dramatically expanded: student enrollment has risen by more than a half, to 29,070. Murphy added 38 new buildings, created ten interdisciplinary study centers. Nonetheless, Murphy is more than willing to make the shift to the Times. "You reach a point," he says, "where your physical and emotional commitment is at a maxi mum, where there is nothing more to give, and then you know it is time to try something else." Though Murphy had been offered other jobs in business, he turned them all down. "What pushed me over the cliff this time...
...many of his counterparts at rival agencies. Last month Young & Rubicam (1967 billings: nearly $400 million) put former Creative Director Stephen Frankfurt, 36, in charge of all U.S. operations. Benton & Bowles, which recently lost its $12 million-a-year American Motors account to Wells, Rich, Greene, announced a creative shift two weeks ago. To succeed William R. Heese, 54, as president, the agency tapped Executive Vice President Victor G. Bloede, 48. An account man for the past four of his 17 years at Benton & Bowles, Bloede rose through the copy department. He promised to emphasize creating "effective advertising...