Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Ehrlichman, undercut his position. Dent has no such problems. He gets on well with Messrs. H. and E. and sees the President frequently. He is a natural contact man for Southern conservatives who want to get their views to the Oval Office. As if to symbolize his rising status, he moved his headquarters last week from the Executive Office Building across West Executive Avenue to the White House proper...
Ever since his disclosures, Fitzgerald -who was nominated by the Air Force in 1967 for a Distinguished Service Award-has labored in a kind of Pentagon purgatory. His civil service status, routinely given any appointee at his level after three years of service, was revoked because of "a computer error." He says that his mail is being opened. One letter even bore the initials and stamp of the "action officer" who had opened it. He still toils quietly in the same windowless, fifth-floor office. Instead of monitoring the costs of the multibillion-dollar...
...foreign relations, because the punitive legislation that Congress has enacted drastically reduces the President's room for maneuvering. Washington might consider channeling assistance through multinational agencies to avoid charges of political string-pulling. That would help mute the charge that the U.S. cares only about preserving the status quo and all too readily supports military regimes...
That is not the only issue, however. A number of experts are agreed on one point: erotic art often unduly celebrates sexual prowess to the exclusion of such qualities as tenderness, patience, courage, humor or honesty. If sex is universally regarded as the ultimate status symbol, as Playboy and the pornocrats suggest, many responsible adults will wind up feeling cheated, and alienated; at the same time, and ironically, the aim of sex will become mental rather than sensory...
Today, July 3, Harvard Union Dining Hall, 8:30-12 midnight, featuring THE PROPHETS and refreshments. Admission: $1 per person plus proof of Harvard student status...