Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty meeting was very bizarre," Ptashne told members of the student Mobilization Committee (SMC). "It looks like a victory, but we came very close to losing. Most Faculty members simply do not want to overthrow the ordinary niceties and express political opinion on the floor of a Faculty meeting...
Most people would agree that under normal circumstances it would be undesirable for the Faculty, as a body of scholars gathered for the purpose of teaching, to express its opinion on political matters which have no direct relation to its academic functions. But these are not normal circumstances, and normal procedures and inhibitions are not appropriate...
...same time I insisted that no faculty member should be coerced in any way into supporting or rejecting such a motion if he did not choose to express his attitude on the War in this manner. Indeed I had suggested that a prior vote might be taken on the appropriateness of considering this issue. On Thursday I was asked to join a group of about 20 in discussing ways of permitting faculty members who did not wish to participate in such a vote to do so and I agreed. Since then, however, I have had no contact with such...
Defregger was also under renewed pressure from Rome. The Jesuit newspaper Civiltà Cattolica asked whether voluntary resignation might not be "more suitable both for the church and Defregger himself." The question was significant, since the Vatican often uses the paper to express its views. Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner announced that his auxiliary for the" time being would handle administrative responsibilities but not sacerdotal duties. Defregger himself entered a Munich hospital "for a thorough checkup and general rest...
...demand for shoes, partly because the new styles, which many people consider ugly, have not really caught on. The fur industry is having its shabbiest year in decades; women are not buying as many minks and Persian lambs as in recent years. In Boston, Detroit and other cities, retailers express misgivings about the prospects for Christmas sales; some are trimming their holiday orders...