Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...city-wide coalition on Black History Month chose "Responsibilities of Black Youth in the '80s: What We Must Do," as the theme for the month's activities. "What we must do is realize that our problems will only be remedied by a unified black community engaged in direct action," Green said...
...draw in stark angularities and symbolic distractions, the suffering of the people he serves. The blatantly political message in his drawings of peasant life--which have circulated widely, in California and Mexico two years ago--and his outspoken criticism of Stroessner's human rights violations have forced him into direct confrontation with Stroessner's secret police. He has been arrested and interrogated several times, his family called in for questioning. In 1976, Filartiga paid a devastating price for his political views: His 17-year-old son Joelito died after torture in a local police station...
Many students are frustrated because they sense that the men--and all too few women--who teach them do not really care very much about their intellectual development. Another world consumes the professors' time, the demanding world of scholarship. They must publish, research, direct the training of future scholars, serve on endless committees--no wonder the undergraduate is a burden. If they try to make time for teaching, Harvard smiles and turns them away. Besides, the undergraduate is often inarticulate, ill-prepared. Many Harvard professors showed their contempt for the undergraduate by fiercely resisting Glen Bowersock's attempt to reform...
Instead of hastening a direct confrontation, Carter should have used this genuine national crisis to attack the roots of the problem. He should have proposed a major energy policy instead of making a throwaway push for synthetic fuels in the last minutes of his speech...
...action. We do need to answer their expansion, but a draft is an inappropriate reaction. The draft is a response for the sake of making a response, not because it is intelligent. Continuation of such policies could mean that we may at some time feel trapped into making a direct military response--even if it, like the draft, is unwarranted...