Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the business of bankrolling films about Harvard is Harvard itself. Its popular documentary identifying demonstrators at the recent antiwar rally at Sanders Theatre is still touring the disciplinary circuit, and already the University has produced another flick which will probably be making the rounds with admissions committeemen for years to come. Those wondering if an independent producer can still make family pictures should take heart: Experience makes the Victory at Sanders Theatre documentary look like Night of the Living Dead...
President Pusey has praised Wilson's CRR as having "functioned courageously, discerningly, and effectively through the year." (President's Report 1969-70) Perhaps words like courage need redefining for bureaucrats. I always thought of courage as "grace under pressure" or some other Hemingwayesque definition. For bureaucrats and committeemen, however, courage seems to be something more like "invisibility under pressure...
...restore party unity, which, they believe, was sacrificed during this year's election. Nixon will face the classic dilemma of any President running for reelection. A strong White House staff including his most trusted advisers tends to run the campaign in its own way, ignoring the national committeemen, who have the firmer ties with the state organizations. White House domination makes the larger party organization atrophy, as occurred in the Johnson Administration. Reported TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo: "The point was made that the White House blew it this year on the law-and-order issue by trying to blame...
Looking out mournfully over the tumult in a resort meeting hall called the Playhouse, New York State Democratic Chairman John Burns last week asked the 345 state party committeemen: "Why have chaos when you can have order?" The question was rhetorical: New York Democrats regard chaos as their birthright. Even so, as they gathered to designate the regular party ticket for Governor, U.S. Senator and other statewide offices, they outdid themselves...