Word: spinelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...participate in a "human-re lations institute." For many, the three-day course was a shocking experience. At the opening gathering, Joseph Paige, 38, a bearded black who holds a doctorate in science and who ran the program, set the tone of what was to follow by denouncing "spineless administrators," scornfully calling them "castrated" and "niggers...
...they no longer have to meet federal antidiscrimination standards when bidding on contracts. There would be time to comply, he said, when hiring for new construction actually started. Further, he added gratuitously, the anti-discrimination requirements were not "carved in granite." The N.A.A.C.P. charged that Volpe had made "a spineless capitulation" to the road builders...
...course, right that faculty have often been spineless and that they have not sacrificed themselves to help students escape from military service. But how many students have sacrificed themselves for faculty when faculty faced various kinds of problems (smears in McCarthy days, etc.)? To be sure, everyone is willing to fight harder for things that most concern him than people who face less immediate difficulty. I do think, however, that many of us would be willing to exert ourselves more if we were persuaded we could really help. My point about CIA officials at Harvard...
...years, old movies have been television's backbone-one reason why TV often appears to be totally spineless. All that is about to change. The networks are running out of films, features are giving way to talk shows and, in historic reversal, TV is starting to invade the movies...
...Utterances. To move from the coffeehouses to an Old Vic revival of The Three Sisters is like catapulting through time. The production is exquisitely mounted, the acting impeccable. Joan Plowright makes Masha a woman of neurotically vulnerable ardor, and as her lover Vershinin, Robert Stephens is a colonel of spineless charm. And yet by comparison, the new experiments in theater make the play seem greyer, dustier, more sibylline than it used to be-as if the sisters' failure to get to Moscow were paralleled by the play's inability to reach the contemporary sensibility...