Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...rhetoric kept pace with her actions except in the classroom, where, her U.C.L.A. philosophy department colleagues said, her Communism never influenced her excellent lectures. In a speech, she once declared that "the Government has to be overthrown." Like Marcuse, however, she added that a general violent revolution was impossible in the United States. But Marcuse has distinguished between the "institutionalized" violence of society and the "defensive" violence of revolutionary students. Disciple Davis once spoke approvingly of the Che-Lumumba Club's concept that "revolution must be tied to dealing with specific problems now, not a lot of rhetoric about...
Black women, so often engaged in the general struggle for sociological change, are largely absent from the ranks of Women's Liberation. Anne Osborne, who works for the Southern Christian Leadership Council in Atlanta, explains their reluctance to participate this way: "They're just beginning to get the kind of good treatment as women that white women have always had?they don't want to give it up too fast. Black men have just gotten enough money to take them to nice places, and women like it." Elizabeth Morgan, a supervisor for the Oakland-Berkeley Welfare Department, adds that some...
...reason for the success of mutual funds is that brokers and bankers also sell fund shares. Dreyfus markets its shares entirely through brokers?and pays them a handsome 81% commission. That gives Howard Stein considerable clout when he says: "The big issue is whether the financial community in general, and the stock exchanges in particular, are going to remain clubs. We have to open them up, encourage new blood and turn them into institutions that respond to public needs...
...year; he also owns 5% of the corporation's stock, a holding now worth about $2,000,000. He runs his empire in a muted, loosely organized style. Visitors often find him sprawled in an armchair in his corner office on the 35th floor of Manhattan's General Motors Building, his shoes off while he studies charts. Stein's informal clothes, casual manner and diffident speech are outward manifestations of a state of mind. He soaks up information, but prefers getting it from people rather than books. An unschooled man with great gaps in his knowledge, he is never afraid...
...Park West, but Jaffe proves incapable of coping with that humdrum task. In a running routine that is a very low mutation of Kafka, Jaffe is consistently unable to persuade the anonymous moving man to move his furnishings. This is supposed to be a metaphor for Jaffe's general ineffectuality; it comes across as merely improbable...