Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real and lasting racial accommodation is to be reached, the ghetto as an emotional and geographic entity will have to be abolished altogether. As long as we speak in terms of any ghetto-however clean, safe and hopeful it may be-we are accepting a racially segregated society that will continue to breed the hate, intolerance, fear, and violence that today is near to creating a fatal polarization of American society...
Increasingly at liberty to speak their own minds, Czechoslovak newspaper and radio columnists fueled the scare. "For God's sake," a Radio Prague commentator addressed Moscow, "don't repeat the tragic experience of Yugoslavia and Hungary." Práce, the trade-union newspaper, editorialized that "any sort of military intervention represents such an adventurist policy that it is unbelievable that any member or responsible body such as the Soviet Central Committee could take it into consideration...
Peterson said that not only were alumni representatives and staff members being sent to poor, predominantly black ghetto areas but that some black undergraduates were being involved in the admissions process. Black students are valuable in recruiting other blacks, he said, because they can speak the language of the prospective students...
There are now about 25 graduate students working on the project. "The current direction of our foreign policy has made it our responsibility as experts to speak out in a public forum," Vannicelli said...
...January, George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, resigned from a Pentagon project staff working on the planned anti-personnel barrier between North and South Vietnam. Kistiakowsky, designer of the explo- sive trigger of the atom bomb, would not speak of his resignation in any but a philosophical fashion...