Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adopting the double-track decision of NATO. This means that we are genuinely ready for disarmament, for detente on a worldwide and controlled basis. But at the same time, if there are no results in the first half of that decision, then we shall not remain silent and simply keep on watching...
Carter is also unexpectedly silent on the 1980 campaign, devoting to it one short chapter. Here, one senses that his honesty ebbs. According to Crisis, Hamilton Jordan's account of the last year of the Carter Administration, the President was obsessed with re-election, and deeply bitter throughout at his Democratic challenger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). His machinations during the primary race against Kennedy--pumping huge federal grants into states with upcoming primaries--are well-known, yet Cart-here opts for the literary parallel of his 1980 "Rose Garden strategy": he simply refuses to enter the fray...
...while the College administration is selecting a pointedly low profile on the subject, another voice has been noticeably and mysteriously silent--that of the students. Wacker discussed the Comprehensive Plan at a meeting of the now-defunct Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life last spring. But despite her solicitation of student opinion, there were no interested participants. Although the lack of interest may be indicative of the broad satisfaction with the House system, it probably was more a sign of a crumbling student government on its last legs. The new student-faculty Committee on Housing--part...
...phrase seems an echo from the dawn of the 1970s, when liberal young men and women in weathered jeans and lumberjack flannels would rail impassionedly at college deans and Uncle Sam for supposed indifference to the will of the people. In the years since, campuses all but fell silent. Now students are crusading again, attacking the same ready targets but from a diametrically opposite direction: the right...
...favorite Democratic governor, lost in the September Democratic primary by a mere six percentage points. Indeed, polls indicated that it was his brush with corruption, not conservative economics, that provided the margin of defeat. At the same time, John W. Sears '52, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, stayed noticeably silent on the Reagan program, but was buried in the general election by 20 percentage points...