Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before and during last April's upheaval, May was associated with the so called "conservative" caucus of the Faculty, but he feels that this will not hamper him in his work as dean. The two Faculty caucuses were "really more procedural than substantive." he said, arguing that in the end the Faculty as a whole was in agreement on most of its votes of last April...
...colleagues who did not share his sense of crisis, and perhaps most of all by his fear that he had not done all he could to stem that crisis and to save the university he loved so fully. Though he detested faculty politics, he organized and led a faculty caucus, despairing equally of having done too much and not enough. Though partisan, he was in a sense not political; he commanded the respect of colleagues of all persuasions whatever their opposition to his views. In no small measure the Harvard crisis was moderated and the search for solutions made easier...
...course meets in 25 different groups mostly at the home of each group's leader. Though the leaders are largely affiliated with SDS's New Left caucus, some members of the Workers-Student Alliance caucus are leading sections. The reading for the course includes the Progressive Labor Party's Trade Union Program and their position papers on Black Liberation...
Where this ethic leads the New Politicians was most clearly demonstrated at the hearings in an hearings in an exchange between former Democratic National Chairman John Bailey's home state of Connecticut. The new politician, Thayer Baldwin, a New Haven attorney who serves as co-chairman of the Caucus of Connecticut Democrats, took exception to Bailey's defense of the state's tightly-controlled convention system of nominating candidates for public office. Bailey said that Connecticut Demo crafts--running nominees selected in this manner--had enjoyed a long series of electoral victories; Baldwin replied that rather than being preoccupied with...
Baldwin latter retreated from this position, admitting that his caucus felt winning was important, but that it also wanted campaigns to center more about the issues than was currently the case in Connecticut. The message was, however, quite clear: Given a choice between defense of their position of principle on certain issues, and victory at the polls, the insurgents would choose principle, while Bailey and other regulars would opt for victory...