Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Reading the NYA newspaper Attack!. one finds in the group's mentality an awesome witch hunt; the devil is red and black, and recognizably utopian. The witches are trose who teach that "paradise is a place where hominoids with full bellies live in a perpetual rut," devoid of "honor, loyalty, race and Western man's will to conquer...
...Corporation and its Administration have chosen to interpret the interruption of the normal administrative routine as an attack on scholarship and academic freedoin. Students and Faculty members should recognize the serious nature of this red herring. No classes or research were affected by demonstrations this Fall. The scattered instances of class disruption last Spring, during a voted university-wide strike, were not sanctioned by any group. Academic freedom has not been at stake during the demonstrations of 1969. Ernest R. May was not obstructed on November 19 because of his well-known views on American diplomatic history. He was obstructed...
...COMMITTEE on Rights and Responsibilities and the majority of the Faculty which have accepted the Administration's argument that obstructive demonstrations are an attack on academic freedom are acting unwittingly in the interests of the Corporation and its Administration. The Committee punishing those who were protesting the Corporation's racist practices and immoral employment practices is perpetuating those practices...
Died. Josef von Sternberg, 75, Austrian-born director of notable films in the '20s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Flamboyant and volatile, Sternberg wanted no part of the then-standard Hollywood formula of saccharine pap; his works were starkly realistic, and as early as 1925, in The Salvation Hunters, he was experimenting with eroticism and the juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well...
...month struggle by Chicago's Northwest Industries to take over the B.F. Goodrich Co. has long since won wide recognition as a classic display of corporate attack and counterattack. The aftermath of Northwest's unsuccessful campaign, which ended last summer, is becoming a textbook case in its own right. Keenly sensitive to Northwest's charges of poor management performance, the Akron rubber company has undergone an extensive purge in its white-collar ranks (TIME, Dec. 26). Now Northwest is beginning to show some managerial fissures...