Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOUGH be led at various times the Faculty's conservative caucus last spring, Dunlop has little ideology outside a belief in collective bargaining and democracy. He makes himself useful by keeping his views to himself, a straightforward pragmatist who likes to play it close to the vest. Roger Rosenblatt, assistant professor of English and member of the Committee of 15, describes him as follows: "Conservative is too negative a description. It's what you call someone when there's nothing else to say. Dunlop's honesty is the most expressive thing about him. His word is absolutely reliable, though...
...raucous caucus of miners results in some explosions of laughter. The score-notably I Still See Elisa, I Talk to the Trees and Wand'rin' Star -is strong enough to levitate several musicals. But only Presnell has a legitimate singing voice, and he is given a single solo and a walk-on role as a bordello manager. Seberg's dubbed voice is as thin as the plot, and Eastwood's real one is scarcely a millimeter thicker. Marvin gamely rasps his lines, but crooning is not his bag. Comedy is. Fitted with outrageous muttonchop whiskers...
...will probably be most effective in healing division in the Faculty. He is staying clear of any affiliation with the conservative caucus now that he is Dean. Since his appointment he has gone to only one meeting of the conservatives ("with the full knowledge of the other side") in order to discuss possible agreement on the Heimert discipline proposal. He plans to meet with Walzer and the liberals soon...
MICHAEL WALZER, professor of Government, and leader of the Faculty's liberal caucus, marched with his family all the way from the Cambridge Common to the rally on the Boston Common...
ROBERT LEE WOLFF, Coolidge Professor of History and chairman of the Faculty's conservative caucus, held his regular class. Slightly more than half his students attended. Wolff said that "if I stopped lecturing every time I was full of moral outrage, would not lecture at all, because I'm full of moral outrage every...