Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mighty resilient. He first took office in 1944 and, in his inauguration speech in 1964, intimated that he hoped to bow out as President after his fifth term. But Tubman has become fond of inaugurations. Last May he again ran for reelection, this time without even the usual token opponent. As he begins his 25th year this week, Tubman has some claim to being called an elder statesman. Among the notables due in Monrovia for his New Year's Day inauguration to a sixth term was U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey...
...very least provide admissions officers with a national common denominator in helping judge the thousands of applications they get every year. A high scorer from a small, little-known school is thus given greater consideration than he might have received from his class record alone. By the same token, the underachiever -the bright youth with poor high school grades-is often spotlighted by the tests, given a second chance to prove himself...
...California's Governor Ronald Reagan, 56, has been friendly for years with Prince Leka, 28, the throneless son of Albania's late King Zog, who was deposed in 1939. After a visit to Sacramento last spring, Leka wrote from Paris that he would be sending "a small token of appreciation," namely a 15-month-old, 700-lb. elephant. The beast's name: Gertie, which Nancy Reagan thought lacked a certain chic, and is why the Sacramento zoo came to acquire an elephant named...
...same token, most of them have defended professors who advocate politically unpopular causes. The McCarthy era aside, one only has to look back to 1965 to remember the outcry that arose when Republican politicians called for the resignation of a Rutgers University professor who complimented the Vietcong in from of his students...
...groups to recruit students for this general purpose. To a vastly lesser extent it also protects those of us who feel outraged by this situation. In effect we are told that we may protest as much as we like--as long as our protest remains ineffective or aims at token reforms such as limiting the bombing in Vietnam to "selected targets" that have a way of increasing after every protest, or being satisfied with a civil rights movement that still leaves the overwhelming mass of the Negro population in squalor and misery. It is conceivable that our passion may limit...