Word: crossman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mass party, "the battering ram on the left," forces brute change on the managers of parliamentary government-so concluded the Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman in the third and final Godkin Lecture delivered at the Law School last night...
...dynamism of mass parties, argued Crossman, originates with the party militants. Curiously, the mass public will be resistant to change. "The middle-the good, common-sense voter-will pull the Cabinet back from drastic change. All the new ideas come from the militant rank and file, who are always out of tune with the majority of the voters and the party leadership...
Donald K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, which annually sponsors the series, said that Crossman preferred to speak to a live audience. Price added that television performances were "miserable for both media" and "destroyed the spontaneity of the audience...
Price said that Crossman was now negotiating with WGBH-TV (Channel 2) on the possibility of giving additional lectures solely...
Friends of E. L. Godkin founded the series in 1903 to present lectures on "the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen." Crossman has not yet announced the topic of the lectures...