Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confusion, disillusion and dismay gripping Italy would long since have provoked the army to take over. But appearances are deceiving in Italy, a country with its own peculiar laws of logic. As Luigi Barzini wrote in The Italians: "They rage against their fate today as they have always done. They have been on the verge of revolution for the last hundred and sixty odd years . . . The unsolved problems pile up and inevitably produce catastrophes at regular intervals. The Italians always see the next one approaching with a clear eye, but like sleepers in a nightmare, cannot do anything to ward...
...upon special appointment. A great pity, as this collection amply illustrates. The 300 selections present a remarkable range of style and subject and a surprising spectrum of soft colors (the chalks and washes) that often show off the sharp eye and skeletal strength of the artist better than works done in larger compass...
Students get almost nothing from participating in decisions as they have done in the past: at the whim and fancy of the administration. All previous examples of student participation have been the meanest instances of tokenisms...
...Glimp tually have responsibility. Dean Glimp's personal definition of "student involvement" is revealed in a suggestion he made to the HUC president and vice-president at the beginning of 1968. "I really want the HUC to get involved in the decision-making process this year. And I've done some thinking about just what would be the right way. There's been a lot of talk about a new athletic building within the next ten years. Why don't you guys set that up as your big project for this year? You could really do a lot of good...
Dean Glimp can protest that "Students ARE involved in decision-making," as he has done time and time again. But it is clear that these claims are valid only in the most grossly paternalistic context. In the last five years, students have been invited to participate in several university decisions: COH subcommittee on parietals, Gill subcommttee on the tenth House, Ad Board review, Admission Committee review, House Study Committee. None of these were sincere attempts to incorporate student opinion...