Word: memoranda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same tragic cycle occurred in Bavaria. There a relative moderate, Kurt Eisner, seized power in a bloodless coup in November 1918. A Jewish drama critic who was far from being a thoroughgoing revolutionary, Eisner forbade terrorism. He even tried to practice absolutely open politics and diplomacy; all cables and memoranda, for instance, were left on display on his desk. The only thing he nationalized was the theater, mainly to ensure that parts would be equitably distributed among actors. When he felt his popularity slipping, he staged a spectacular at the Munich opera house. Bruno Walter, then resident conductor...
...Long-Range Study Committee appointed by the Board of Overseers has previously made known its desire to receive written suggestions and memoranda from committees and groups in addition to those with which it is arranging to have oral discussions in mid-May. It has now taken note of the April 28, 1969 announcement by the Committee of Fifteen inviting submissions of such material to it. If anyone who submits such papers would care to send a copy to the LongRange Study Committee, c/o William G. Young, Wadsworth House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, the Committee would be pleased to have...
...Internal memoranda. which record disputes within the McCarthy camp...
...Decentralize dissemination of information about students by sending reports, such as police memoranda, to tutors rather than to the dean, and by permitting tutors to make more decisions...
Currents of the Times. Elson constantly describes the play of ideas that took place among the principals, often in office memoranda. Luce and his associates wrote a great many of these-indeed it seems remarkable that they had any time left over to get out the magazines. In these memos they struggled with each other, tried to convince each other, often about procedural matters (Who is responsible for accuracy?) but, more often, about the main political and intellectual currents of the times...