Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing that U.S. students did last week, however, quite measured up to what happened north of the border at Sir George Williams University in downtown Montreal. There, students protesting alleged racism on the part of a young white biology teacher climaxed a 13-day occupation of the school's computer center by turning it into a shambles. They started a major fire in the building, littered the street with a blizzard of blank punch cards, and, like latter-day Luddites, demolished the two computers with axes. Riot police broke through barricades and arrested 97 people, but not before...
...takes several hours and several 200 bus fares for a woman to avail herself of them and, lacking a babysitter, she probably has to drag her other children along with her. The northern Bronx is largely white, Jewish and health-oriented; there, women go routinely to their private physicians for the same services...
...woman of dreams, the woman of lust and woman the nun," Edvard Munch once confided. The Norwegian fin de siècle painter was explaining one of his favorite compositions, which showed three women standing together-one in black, one in white, one nude. He used this trio in several different canvases, known collectively as "the Sphinx" cycle. They epitomized, as no other subject could, the shy, alcoholic bachelor's agonized obsession with that half of the human race which he never was able to understand...
Moreover, the laboratory animal and the wild animal now bear little resemblance to each other. They are both rodents, but that is about all. Confined in thousands of laboratories, the white rat represents hundreds of different varieties, each as different from its common ancestor as the Chihuahua is from the wolf. Some cornered Norway rats will fight to the death rather than allow themselves to be captured by a man; a cornered laboratory rat will simply back away. Wild Norways ruthlessly kill intruder rats; their amiable laboratory cousins merely sniff at strangers. Wild rats survive by their wits; captive rats...
...gives the Nixon Administration some room for maneuver. So does the fact that a number of companies are "stockpiling" workers because of the shortage of skills, and may be inclined to hang onto them as long as possible, even if that means some short-term loss of profits. The White House nonetheless hopes to devise what Paul Mc-Cracken calls "other kinds of public policies" to keep unemployment from rising too rapidly under the influence of anti-inflationary restraints...