Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wouldn't normally quibble about one word; however, this one word is very important. In your cover story on "Rage and Reform on Campus" [April 18], you quote me as characterizing the style of the university by rationality and stability. Actually, the wire services earlier made the same error in reporting a press conference here. Probably it's my own fault for not enunciating more clearly. The word I actually used was civility, which is much more important for universities today than stability. Civility becomes increasingly vital if university people-faculty, students and administration-are to discuss instead...
Paris' Le Monde had a word for that: "Blackmail." The Gaullist scare tactic further distorted an already complex referendum that lumps three disparate issues in one take-it-or-leave-it package. The main component is De Gaulle's plan to shift power from Paris bureaucrats to newly created economic regions. Along with this popular measure, voters are asked to endorse De Gaulle's plans to strip away the Senate's powers and shift the line of presidential succession from the President of the Senate to the Premier-a De Gaulle appointee. Thus put, the packaging...
...This is a very large change," Gerald Holton, professor of Physics and head of that department, said yesterday. "Previously Harvard University could write no letters requesting deferment, and the entire draft law depends on someone writing a letter using the word request. Otherwise the draft board would not by law be obligated to consider the letter...
...course the best descriptions of transcendent states is not necessarily either contemporary or western. D. T. SUZUKI's essays on Satori, the poetry of VEDANTA, the Bhagavad Gita, CHRIST's Sermon on the Mount, all put into word what is ultimately wordless, ineffable, breathtaking, transcendent, God-knowing...
Willful action must be distinguished from violence, although many have called the walking into the building violence ("We seek only peace in Vietnam"). Willful action has more impact than violence, because violence, especially police violence, has become banal. It may seem remarkable that scarcely a word has been said at faculty meetings about the incredible brutality of the police in the Thursday morning bust. But why? Police violence has become accepted in our society, built into our ideology. Killing in Vietnam, remember, is not murder. It is not murder because it has a reason rooted in ideology. ("Our criminals...