Word: backtracking
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...really distressing that the C.E.P., a body under no strong obligations to departmental ideas and in a position to lead the liberalization of requirements in the Faculty, has lost heart and wants to backtrack. The original notion behind C.L.G.S. needs champions who can reverse the C.E.P. vote in today's meeting, and adopt the excellent proposal the committee unaccountably rejected. If the departments are to have further influence on "General Studies," whose very name means learning outside concentration, it should be on expanding rather than restricting the degree...
Last week's events caused both candidates to backtrack. Though Judd hinted that President Kennedy's blockade timing may have been political, he greeted the decision with relief. "At long last the U.S. is going to stop retreating," he declared. "The situation is not worse than it has been. In fact, if anything it is less dangerous. As in the past, firmness and strength in support of our principle, our commitments and our security offer the best, perhaps the only hope of peace and freedom in the world...