Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater and Henry R. Luce. This time students and faculty alike set New Haven palpitating with plans. Passes were issued to members of classes in which the honored visitor would lecture, so that outsiders would not usurp regulars' seats. Radical activists prepared an 18-point questionnaire calculated to embarrass him. Campus conservatives prepared their own rebuttals. Yet when Ronald Reagan showed up in New Haven last week, his hosts were surprised to find him an engaging fellow...
...though, the line is arbitrary--if its purpose just to mark out an identifiable target without regard to the nature of the research itself or of the non-research activity--then, aside from the likelihood that an embarrassingly large number of angels will be caught in the netful of devils, there is the question of what is being objected to and what the purpose of the boycott is. The purpose can no longer be described as bringing pressure to bear to get objectionable activities terminated. Rather, it would look--to me, at any rate--as though a boycott were being...
Whatever my feelings about Professor Galbraith's protest movement, I resent his proposal that students organize to coerce me into joining it. And I hope nobody stays away from Professor Galbraith's classes in a vain organized attempt to embarrass him into changing his politics. T. C. Schelling Professor of Economics
Nudity & Napalm. An induction center and a federal building were targets of antiwarriors in Chicago, where 200 sympathizers of CADRE (Chicago Area Draft Resisters) and Women Strike for Peace-carrying posters of "Bloodfinger Johnson"-tried on and off over three days to embarrass the Government with wads of turned-in draft cards and pushy petitions. Police turned back most of them and arrested four, but some 30 housewifely pickets made it to the door of a Chicago induction center, where they recoiled in horror on being informed that inside there were nude inductees undergoing physicals. "Don't touch...
...then backed down at the last minute when the Communists refused to drop a charge of treason against him. Another was that Mindszenty was so angered by Washington's decision to restore full diplomatic relations with Hungary that he planned to walk out of the mission simply to embarrass incoming U.S. Ambassador Martin Hillenbrand-even at the risk of arrest...