Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, addressed the consortium Monday night, calling Harvard "a pale, bloodless, heartless thing" in an apparent reference to the administration's treatment of the institute...
Died. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 74, Colombian caudillo (1953-57); of a heart attack; in Malgar, Colombia. Installed as President in a bloodless 1953 golpe, Rojas ruled in dictatorial fashion until an appetite for graft (he acquired at least nine ranches as President) eroded army support and led to his ouster in 1957. The next year he returned from exile and became the focus of opposition to the ruling Liberal-Conservative National Front, nearly returning to power in the hotly contested election...
...seriously the needs they are failing to answer. Just as all art strives to be music, "every organization," Sheed assumes, "strives to be a religion." The true believers signaling wildly inside every American joiner, he concludes, "already wander the streets looking for stranger cults, wilder religions. The more bloodless buy books called You're Really a Terrific Person, desperately making the most of what's left when you lose defining associations." In the end, outside-insiders play prophet rather than reporter and are subject to a certain amount of repetition. Sheed's warnings...
...himself the center of a national personality cult, Mobutu has succeeded in forging an unprecedented degree of unity among the nearly 200 tribes speaking more than 75 different languages that make up the former Belgian Congo's population. In 1965 when Mobutu, then an army commander, led the bloodless coup that deposed President Joseph Kasavubu, the country had endured five disastrous years of anarchy, civil war and bloodshed. Although rich in natural resources, Zaire was totally unequipped to utilize them when Belgium granted independence in 1960. Industrial development came to a halt when investors refused to risk their money...
China-watching and Harvard administration-watching have their similarities. At Harvard the administration doesn't put up ideological posters, its coups are minor and bloodless, and who sits next to whom at official dinners is probably of less moment here than in the mysterious East. But the opportunities for finding out what the Harvard administration is really thinking are nevertheless few and far between--and easy to miss...