Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Windswept Job. Bell was reluctant to move from the familiar, congenial Budget Bureau to the stormswept Agency for International Development. Foreign aid is unpopular with the public and with Congress; morale at AID is badly eroded, and basic concepts of foreign aid are in flux (TIME, Nov. 23). The administrative lines at AID are so snarled up after repeated reorganizations that Lawyer Hamilton, despite extensive personnel changes, was unable to get it operating effectively during his year in the job. He also lost prestige when Congress slashed the foreign aid budget a lot more heavily than usual. Hamilton...
Born into an impoverished, nonmusical family Debussy had virtually no formal schooling as a child. Unpopular with the more hidebound instructors at the conservatory, he still managed to win the coveted Grand Prix de Rome by tossing off a composition (L'Enfant Prodigue) in deliberate imitation of Lalo and Delibes, the popular French composers of the day. Debussy was no admirer of either man, or of any other French contemporary. To him Berlioz was "a tremendous humbug, Charpentier was "downright vulgar," Massenet a panderer of "stupid ideas and amateur standards...
...fought the trend which was developing in several other universities for the establishment of a professional staff of advisors. Leighton insisted on using only Faculty and Administration members, an unpopular concept at that time, but one which still forms the basis of the Board of Advisors both here and in most other colleges...
Moreover, the Indian army may not only at last get the equipment it needs but may also gradually emerge as something of a political force. While this view is still vastly unpopular, many army officers think it is time for India to come to terms with Pakistan over the nagging Kashmir issue, so that the two great countries of the subcontinent
...says it is eager to grant Kenya its independence as soon as possible, such problems as defining its frontiers and drawing up an acceptable constitution now seem certain to delay nationhood until mid-1964. Renison favored a cautious approach to Uhuru. But Whitehall plainly felt that he was too unpopular to sell it to the Africans or to hold together the uneasy coalition of Kenya's deeply antagonistic political parties, Kenyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. To succeed Renison, Duncan Sandys picked a man with a better chance of making delay palatable: Malcolm MacDonald...