Word: thrusted
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After the appointment, 700 of Austin's 1,700 faculty members attended an emergency meeting; they overwhelmingly approved a motion asking Lorene Rogers to resign and protesting that a person "found wanting" by the student-faculty committee "should not be thrust upon it." The Austin chapter of the American Association of University Professors called the appointment "a profoundly ill-considered, arbitrary and ugly action." The faculty senate voted not to participate in any university council meetings while Rogers is in office...
Professor Kilson, in his letter in the October 1 Crimson, errs in attempting to turn into an "ethnic" issue what was-cleanly and thoroughly a religious concern of Rabbi Gold's in his sermon on Yom Kippur. He certainly did not "announce his leadership" of any "militant Jewish thrust" of any kind, as Professor Kilson says. Professor Kilson has made that up out of whole cloth...
...Kippur sermon at Memorial Church on September 14, Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of Harvard Hillel, announced his leadership of a militant Jewish thrust within the Harvard community. This is a regretful event, potentially even more destructive of that delicate framework of civility which sustains Harvard's greatness than the past militancy of blacks, leftists, and women. Like the latter's spokesmen, Rabbi Gold's claims for redressing Jewish grievances would have Harvard surrender its painstakingly acquired universalism to the cathartic requisites of a new particularism. He considers Harvard's past injuries to Jews grounds for inflicting upon Harvard today...
Like the caretaker of a freak that has been thrust into the limelight, what the administration wants for its W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research is some quiet respect...
...exception is the 42,000-man U.S. force in South Korea), the non-Communist nations of Southeast Asia have been moving toward accommodation with their Communist neighbors. This was most explicitly spelled out by Thailand's politically skilled Premier Kukrit Pramoj. In a recent speech he observed: "The thrust of our foreign policies is the burying of old grudges, the overcoming of old fears, the opening of new doors...