Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth's scalping raid takes place in the Yale Bowl this week. The Yalies, who could only manage a tie against Colgate, may be able to put up some limited resistance, but it is apt to be only token...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s labor secretary since 1951. Hill has taken to tangling with such labor leaders as A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, United Auto Workers Chief Walter Reuther and the Garment Workers' David Dubinsky. He charges that A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions practice open segregation in some cases, token integration in some others. Cries Hill: "We are going into federal court to develop a whole new body of labor laws in behalf of the Negro. The opposition of Meany, Reuther and Dubinsky to this new effort will not deter us in the slightest. From now on, they will have to answer...
...their later years is to be sure that the advice was right. As noted, the statement may not apply to some gifted young scientists in the first bewitchment of their powers, but it applies surely to future physicians destined to concern for their fellow men and, by the same token, to men in other fields. What the liberal education basically seeks is not a fast start in a man's twenties but traction and opening scope in his thirties and later, College resembles the circles that bees make before homing to their course; the wider the circles, the truer...
...tutorial makes little sense in a department which, as English does, tutors all its concentrators, regardless of what sort of degree it expects them to receive. More-over, the Department is pretty sure that most of its Honors students will in fact obtain Honors degrees. By the same token it does not expect many non-Honors candidates to get a degree with distinction. In short, the English Department believes in separating the Honors man from his non-Honors counterpart in a way that is as open, honest, and obvious as possible. The Gill plan proponents, who do not like...
...facts. Certainly an ambitious editor could have armed himself with Senator Keating's speech made a week before the crisis thus and attempted to tell his readers whether the Senator had reason when he asserted that there were some offensive missile bases on the island. By the same token, some of the reporters that are closest to the Administration could have taken some of the hints and rumors that floated around the Capitol during the week before the blockade, and transformed them into concrete news stories. And if publishers were wary of attributing certain attitudes to the President...