Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news board will give you the word on covering Harvard, the City, and the nation. The editorial board welcomes future Tom Wickers, and the photo and business boards are only too glad to initiate you into their occult arts. A sportswriter or two may even be around to say a few words about the jock world...
...fact, although for theoretical reasons he does not emphasize it. The ability of the federal government to intervene in local politics is considerable, but it is not unlimited. When the OEO-sponsored community action groups began to make too much trouble for the city halls and the state houses, word quickly got back to Washington that it was time to start phasing out the community action groups. The power of these groups--like all "power" that is given rather than won--turned out not to be power at all. Within the next few months their remaining "power" will probably...
...only after a motion to abolish the old name weathered a 262 to 123 vote. Richard Ichord (D-Mo.), the new chairman of HUAC (or HISC), had little reason to expect such heavy opposition from the liberals. The "un-American" in HUAC's old name had been a fighting word to them, a chauvinist smear. The New Republic, for example, editorialized: "At present a lot of Congressmen vote funds for the committee lest they be called unpatriotic. Drop the scare word and the spell breaks." But opponents of the bill feared that a new name would make HUAC more respectable...
Meanwhile, Congress has eliminated HUAC in name only. The fact that the Committee took to a pseudonym represents no victory for the liberals, but at least the word "un-American" may begin to disappear from the national lexicon. This prospect, though, does not please Walter Goodman, author of The Committee, who sees HUAC's name as a perverse but lovable piece of Americana. "There is nothing un-American about the Un-American Activities Committee...just as there is nothing un-American about union-busting, anti-Semitism, or the Ku Klux Klan." For all its patriotism and bad meter, "HUAC...
ALONG the new horizon is a national publication--Word--that will begin publishing in three or four weeks. Word will deal with books and records in the BAD style, and will be distributed to college students throughout the country, shipping out of the Boston office. The first issue, with a quarter million circulation, will be distributed free, Lewis said, but a paid circulation is planned for the future...