Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This winter's Crimson team did markedly better than any recent Harvard fencing squad. Only three times in the 14-year history of the Ivy League have the Crimson finished as high as third, and last year it finished in the cellar. The NCAA meet has been held since 1941, but Harvard has never won a team or individual title...
...most of the vulnerable points of such protest--their theatricality, their callous manipulations of officials and police, their irresponsibility, and their numbness to the hostile and repressive reaction of the mass of United States society. But why did Gardner decide to abuse the worst of the radicals for the better part of his final speech and cast only an occasional critical sentence at what he called "that complacent lump of self-satisfied Americans who fatten on the yield of this society but never bestir themselves to solve its problems...
...build a society to man's measure--if we have the will." Gardner acknowledged that "there are things gravely wrong with our society as a problem-solving mechanism," but, except for a slight shift from federal to local government, seemed always to be urging only more and better of the same. The United States "urgently needs leaders to symbolize its values, to clarify choices, to help sift priorities, and most of all perhaps to keep hope alive," Gardner said. That may be, but the effect of Gardner's performance was to make his style of liberalism look a flaccid...
...Would better butter have solved the problem? Don't count on it, warns Feuer, now professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, formerly professor of philosophy at the University of California during what he calls "the Berkeley Student Uprising...
Ploy No. 3: "I always knew you didn't like me." Student movements are anxious that the Establishment (i.e., Father) behave badly. Indispensable to the morale of student movements is an "episode of repression." Nothing develops better "generational solidarity" among the students than official rejection, particularly when there is violence...