Word: tact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Michelmore incident has not put the Peace Corps program in serious jeopardy in America or in Nigeria, is has indirectly increased several dangers. Any meaningful understanding between people of different cultures would seem to require that both display within the limitations of tact, a certain openness about their own values; that they be able to accept and understand another way of life without at the same time sacrificing their own cultural identity. There is a possibility that the Michelmore episode will cause Peace Corps members to become overly afraid that they will offend someone by simply being themselves...
...Policy changes at Harvard are brought about by a representative group developing a good idea and presenting it with tact and clear reasoning. Failure and inability of past Councils to perform its function brought about this Committee and the writing of a new Constitution," the report states...
Among the six soloists, Robert White (countertenor) and Charles Bressler (tenor) were particularly outstanding--both for technical accomplishment and tact. Especially when singing with the ensemble, they maintained a sense of humility, rising above the group, but never dominating...
Sandy commands his words without succumbing to the charm of the charm of their sound. He merges emotion and form with a tact that unfolds a whole lifetime by indirection...
...hundreds of millions of people" and their hopes that "the great powers who hold the key to war and peace will remove the threat of war and lead the world to peace." The Russian people have yet to be told that Khrushchev has actually begun testing, and Nehru tactfully avoided mentioning the fact. But his tact earned him nothing. Khrushchev, hacking away on his current canard, replied that "aggressive forces want to plunge the world into another war," and that "in view of the direct threat to the U.S.S.R., we are faced with the need to carry out experimental explosions...