Word: solicitation
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...General Board of the National Council of Churches had recorded its "deep appreciation" to Forman and avowed that it "shares the aspirations of the black people of this country." As for the people who started it all, the Board of Directors of IFCO voted to solicit $270,000 from its members .for further activities by the Black Economic Conference...
Seven of the committee members met Tuesday and agreed to solicit "views and suggestions" from Ed School students and faculty members not on the committee before meeting again after Spring vacation...
They still must make students take their club seriously. Actually, they have more prestige off-campus than on. In recent years politicians in Massachusetts have actively begun to solicit student opinion. Young Dem officers have received calls from the State Legislature to sound off at their open hearings. The legislators, especially the Democrats, associate Harvard student opinion with the YD's much in the same way the Hollywood actors associate Harvard drama with the Hasty Pudding...
...present brevity means that it need solicit fewer advertisements to support itself. So, to the extent that it is competing with Boston After Dark for advertising, it is now less vulnerable. Its changed form also makes it a completely different sort of publication than BAD. It no longer tries to review events extensively; it spotlights only one movie, one concert, and one dramatic production. The rest of the Calendar is just that, a calendar...
...severely beaten by two white men. Says Charles E. Silberman, author of Crisis in Black and White: "Justice is an act, not a state of mind. Our obligation in no way hinges on the merits of the person or the people to whom justice is owed." To expect or solicit the love of the black, he says, is both pathological and pathetic...