Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...these positions is clearly incompatible with the rights which professors have along with all other citizens to express their views on public policy and to participate in the political process. A professor does not lose this right because he is either a hawk or a dove, does research at the CFIA or elsewhere, or is named Huntington or Genovese. Mr. Plotke's views are a challenge to the basic principles essential to the life of both an academic community and a free society...
...been developed to take some of the sting and embarrassment out of executive firing. Instead of simply bouncing a subordinate, the boss can send him to a firm that specializes in helping unwanted executives to find new jobs. The practitioners have even coined a euphemistic description for the process: "outplacing" executives who have been "dehired...
...little organization, few chants or ringing slogans, and plenty of detractors, such as West Virginia Senator Jennings Randolph, who called the demonstrators "braless bubble-heads." But the women turned their opponents away with more tolerance and humor than has been the norm in American street politics. In the process, they probably won new support and undoubtedly new awareness among both men and women of the case for female rights...
...next eight years, portrait painting absorbed most of Porter's energies. Attacking portraiture with his customary canny vigor, Porter tried to speed up the normally tedious process and devised a simply constructed portable camera obscura. By projecting the subject's facial outline onto paper, Porter could, in 15 minutes, trace a likeness, fill in the features, and collect...
...imperfections. "She's not looking for the truth, but making a case," says Rutgers Anthropologist Robin Fox. He says he is no misogynist, but, he charges, she's "inventing a new mythology to replace the old one . . . She's playing ducks and drakes with the truth, and in the process doing herself and her cause a disservice." Specifically, Fox says, Millett's theory that gender identity is imposed by society rather than genes is "a typical half-truth...