Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rule. The Putnam motions would, in my opinion, if they prevailed, commit the Faculty to a specific general political position which comes very close to a doctrinal orthodoxy. The rationale for such a position is not generated inside the academic world from academic considerations, but would be imposed upon it from without by a particular politically committed group. To be sure, this group claims moral sanction for its position, but so do other, differing groups claim moral sanction for their own positions...
...theories concerning power, money, work, and conscience. Of all Shaw's outpourings, this is perhaps the most purely comic in tone, and therefore affords a splendid view of the craftsman at work, of a half century of theatrical experience synthesized into two hours and some odd of laugh piled upon laugh. That the play also manages to come briefly to grips with a serious theme is, well, downright remarkable...
...political protest movement has also undergone a change in this process. For whereas the early sixties might have had as an object the highlighting of certain political wrongs when they protested, the aim of dissent is now to force change upon the system...
...Upon seeing the students, Mrs. Kathleen O. Elliott, dean of the College, telephoned Mrs. Bunting at a conference she was attending in North Carolina on the relevance of higher education. The President said she would return and speak to the group. When the students heard Mrs. Bunting was coming, they decided to stay...
After a very close vote, SDS also resolved to recommend to the group that does gather before the Faculty debate to try to get into the meeting, even if its location is switched at the last moment. But SDS members emphasized that no definite political tactics could be decided upon because no one knew how many students would turn up on Thursday...