Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Holmes is a kind of boy's man whose greatest joy is tinkering with his chemistry set. In musical terms, he is a drab, antiseptic, kissproof cousin of Henry Higgins. He has his brain on his brain, and he incessantly makes love to it in Fritz Weaver's croaking brand of talkee-singee-"just a loaf of bread and a cryptogram, this were paradise enow...
...Students on a part-time basis cannot hold communities together. There has to be a transfer of control," Claude Weaver '65, a SNCC worker, said yesterday...
...light of the Cahns' observations, Robert Weaver's summary of the federal government's efforts to "shape" the "Spread City" reads like a General's account of the progress of the war. Stating that the government's goal is to prevent waste and disorder," Weaver enumerates uncritically federal programs to aid cities, and calls for "better organization of urban governments." He is, of course, selling the program which he heads, and he confines his generalization to purposes rather than effects, which is always safer ground...
...circle of experts trapped in the revolving door of uncommunication, and clarifies why they are likely to stay there awhile. Beginning with an exclamation that "just doesn't make sense," Goodman neither accepts the process as inevitable as does Bell, nor resolves to influence its course as does Weaver; instead he sets about looking for ways to reverse it. Living in congested areas, he says, makes people confused. Motivated by a mixture of good intentions, vigorous imagination, and economic ignorance, Goodman hits upon a program of boarding-out slum children to farms, that will alleviate congestion and simultaneously...
Peter Orris '67, Morton P. Thomas '66, Claude L. Weaver '65, and Robert E. Wright '65 related incidents of discrimination, harassment, threats, and beatings incurred during their experience as civil rights workers in Mississippi...