Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican's inflexibility with respect to altering long-held dogmas should surprise no one. The whole Ecumenical movement has never resulted in any substantial changes, only in talk about changes. The rulings that the Mass may be sung in English, that it isn't a sin to eat meat on Friday, and that the Jews didn't kill Christ after all, are hardly of major importance. On all the significant issues-birth control, divorce, abortion, censorship -the church hasn't budged an inch...
...think of nothing more disastrous for the future of America than Mr. Nixon's talk of unity. The last time we were blessed with unity was during the togetherness Administration of President Eisenhower, which turned out to be a period of absolute torpor...
Last spring, the HUC passed a highly significant motion calling for student seats on all faculty committees. We sent the proposal to the CEP and Committee on Houses (COH) and crossed our fingers. In time, both groups sent back ambiguous letters of rejection; and they invited us in to talk about it. We could do nothing except change our minds and agree with them or wait a year and try again. Doing either meant abdicating our responsibility to the student body. Yet the alternative was confrontation politics, something that the HUC, which acts with its hands rather than its feet...
...made to the HUC president and vice-president at the beginning of 1968. "I really want the HUC to get involved in the decision-making process this year. And I've done some thinking about just what would be the right way. There's been a lot of talk about a new athletic building within the next ten years. Why don't you guys set that up as your big project for this year? You could really do a lot of good on that...
What about the tuition hike without a commensurate raise in scholarships? This, too, is economic double-talk which conceals specific political priorities. In a term paper on University financial decisions written for David Riesman last spring, David Labaree '69 concludes...