Word: successful
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Monday, April 21 SPOON RIVER (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A com pressed version of Edgar Lee Masters' small-town Americana, with Jason Robards, Charles Aidman, Joyce Van Patten and Jennifer West. The original, on Broadway, was a critical success...
After three months in office, the Nixon Administration cannot claim much success in gaining the confidence of the nation's 23 million Negroes or that of other minorities with similar problems. "I really don't think Mr. Nixon is sensitive to the problems of black people and poor people," says Ralph Abernathy,Martin Luther King's successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "Blacks regard him as a President who is concerned only with the welfare of the rich and" the affluent."Liberals in Congress, who generally have been chary in their criticism of Nixon...
...colonels are banking on ingrained village traditions to make them a success. "Our revolution succeeds or fails not in the cities but in the countryside," Pattakos says. "The air in the cities is never as fresh as that in the country." Nor perhaps is the love of freedom so violent. Last week in the central-Greece village of Megalo Kalivia, 40 peasants were hurt and two score more arrested in a pitchfork battle with police. The battle flared over a strip of ground that the peasants have always used for sheep grazing. Those new eaters in Athens want to erect...
...Larner also detects in McCarthy "a deep-seated bitterness, which made him downrate individuals even as he was calling for a national policy of generosity." Perhaps, says Larner, McCarthy is infected by "a guilt and fear so relentless that it demanded the destruction of every possibility of power or success...
Thus the second draft of the standing Faculty Committee has no validity because that Committee itself has no legitimacy. Further even than this, why did the Standing Committee violate the guidelines of the Rosovsky Report without consulting that group which had a clear, vested interest in the success of the program? The answer lies in the fact that black students are looked upon as a resource, rather than as a constituency, and thus are to be contemptuously manipulated rather than openly consulted and dealt with...