Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anent the nameless "Jewish leader" who angrily warned Secretary of State William Rogers, "Don't think you can get our support, Mr. Secretary, for any kind of imposed settlement now being cooked up [for the Middle East]" [May 9]: Just who designated this person as spokesman for the American Jewish community, whose support he dares threaten to withhold from the legally constituted representative of the American people charged with the conduct of our foreign relations...
...group is basing the drive on the arguments advanced by the Exam Boycott movement held earlier this term. "Exams are painful and pain should not be a part of learning," the group's spokesman said yesterday...
...pledge to boycott exams becomes effective only if two-thirds of the student body sign it," the spokesman said. "Students have nothing to lose--o one is going to get into trouble for doing what two-thirds of the Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate body does...
...radical message." "A good D.J. is friendly, congenial and amusing, the sort of person you trust," he notes after the WABC interview, and perhaps a good young revolutionary author is the same sort of person. But this strategy is one which Kunen only flirts with. The pose of spokesman for the militant young does not come naturally to him, and the preform statements of serious revolutionary purpose at the book's beginning and end (and a couple points in between) are without question Kunen's most strained and unconvincing writing. It is not clear whether deference to his publisher...
...there is a group among the militants who have studied such things, who take their own analysis seriously, and who may even act on it themselves in a quite rigidly disciplined way politically. This group would never recognize an on-again-off-again radical like Kunen as their spokesman, and might at times find him disturbingly frivolous...