Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student aid is that parts of it are subject to the so-called anti-riot clauses, which stipulate that funds shall be denied to students who use unlawful tactics. I think these stipulations are inappropriate. Nevertheless it is important to note that the law does not restrict freedom of thought, dissent or speech. Moreover, discretion to deny the funds has been left with the University. So far as I know, no such denials have been made...
...Professors are hired for their research achievements, not their teaching ability. Almost the only educational technique employed by senior faculty members is the lecture, involving no communication or concern. Grades are awarded for effective mimicry. The university seems not to care for the self-understanding, self-respect or independent thought of its students...
...feet, Lord Leatherland cried: "I should hate historians of the future to say that Lord Gardiner was the man who said that Magna Carta was junk." The Lord Chancellor was appropriately chastened. Rising from his comfortable woolsack, he said: "I withdraw the word junk." There is no thought, however, of withdrawing the repeal proposal...
Shannon has been the favorite prelate of many U.S. Catholic progressives. Thoughtful and articulate, he has thought of himself as a bridge between radicals and conservatives in the church; yet his own liberal views may well have prevented him from getting his own diocese. After Shannon appeared in an NBC documentary discussing tensions in the church, Los Angeles' crusty James Francis Cardinal McIntyre complained to the U.S. hierarchy, reportedly calling Shannon's, tolerance for change an "incipient schism...
...whites expect of him with a comic and cynical flourish. His mistress, Kelly Sims, a college-educated chemist, bravely but quixotically banks her hopes for Negro progress on intellect. His eventual wife, Lila, a wise but unlettered country girl, has the "black granite" endurance that was once popularly thought to be the essential quality of the Negro race...