Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been naive before in believing that the administration and overseers would carry out the mandates given them by the University. Hopefully they will not act as they should have in the first place. Theodore H. Moran '65 Lieutenant j/g, USNR
Susan Furry, MAT candidate, urged Monday's meeting to act independently of the faculty. "We're the people, and we make the decisions," she said to the group of about 150 students and faculty...
...laws of Physics. One of the wonderful things about an undemocratic university like Harvard is that men of action will always get their way. And men of action, most of the time, are good men. They are good because they not been socialized. Socialized men will almost never act. They believe too much in the system that they have been taught. Socialized men are middle class dullards and right-wingers. They only commit acts of violence--like cops beating kids, or soldiers killing Viet namese--they are basically banal. Men of action, however, are "alienated," as various people have told...
...shut down" (i.e., cut down the attendance of classes at) a university like Harvard, or even Harvard itself. The bigger a big corporate organism gets, the more that organism demands that its members acquiesce (even though it demands benignly). In a situation like this, men who are willing to act will have the greatest impact, because their actions are so unusual, and because their opponents will not attack them. A big corporate organism is also easier to attack because it is big and unwieldly--it has more places where it can be hurt, and it has a harder time fighting...
Barrington Moore Jr., lecturer on Sociology, said, "The more powerful element in SDS is trying to act responsibly" and has discouraged disruption...