Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around a barricaded building while ragged defenders struggled to hold them off. Helicopters clattered overhead broadcasting calls for surrender; tear gas billowed and missiles flew. While millions of Japanese watched on television last week, the storming of Tokyo University brought a violent end to a bitter, year-long student strike...
Although the strike is over, tensions have not eased at all. Last week a special committee on racial and religious prejudice, appointed by Mayor John Lindsay and headed by former State Supreme Court Justice Bernard Botein, reported that "an appalling amount of racial prejudice?black and white?surfaced in and about the school controversy. The anti-white prejudice has a dangerous component of anti-Semitism." Similarly, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith warned that "undisguised anti-Semitism is at a crisis level in New York City schools where, unchecked by public authority, it has been building...
Secret Vote. To bring some sense out of this anarchy, the White Paper would empower the government to 1) order a union to hold a secret vote when a major strike is threatened, 2) delay walkouts by ordering a 28-day "conciliation pause" and 3) impose settlements in jurisdictional disputes that union leaders are unable to resolve among themselves. Trade unionists who defy a government order would be subject to fines. On the other hand, the paper turned down the plea of management groups that all labor contracts should be made legally binding...
...many areas of Afro-American culture is emphatically a matter of more than academic or pedagogical concern to black students. Indeed, it seems likely that the absence of such offerings is the single most potent source of the black students' discontent at Harvard. The lack of such courses can strike the black students as a negative judgment by Harvard on the importance of these areas of knowledge and research and, by inference, on the importance of the black people themselves...
...would strike us as eminently unfair for Tuesday's outcome to be construed as either a repudiation of the SFAC or a reflection on Professor Hoffmann's eloquent and spirited defense of the handi-work of his silent or absent colleagues. James C. Thomson Jr. (Assistant Professor of History) Robert V. Pound (Mallinkrodt Professor of Physics) Martin H. Peretz (Assistant Professor of Social Studies) Rogers G. Albritton (Professor of Philosophy) Members of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council