Word: existing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country-a swing accentuated, paradoxically, by the murder of one of the nation's most articulate liberals. The rationale is that the majority of Americans, the white and the relatively affluent, now crave a return to a kind of ordered normality that may in fact never again exist in traditional terms. How deep and long-lived this trend to the right will prove to be can only be guessed at. A real test will not come until the election is decided in November. But it poses a danger for the short run because it serves as an excuse...
...Biafra conflict. "It did not matter if Senator Kennedy's assailant was first believed to be a Mexican, and then a Cuban and then an Arab," said the Montreal Star, adding: "The fact remains that in Harlem and Watts and every other Negro community . . . 'they' [assassins] exist as perpetual enemies, while the one figure who might have provided hope was removed forcibly from the arena." Perhaps the farthest reach came from Italian Author Raoul Romoli-Venturi (Encounter with Democracy). "Unfortunately," he said, "all the tensions of the world have been imported by the United States...
Generally, however, a committee's recommendations are accepted with out much fuss, unless there are physical (i.e., financial) limitations present. Recommendations get by easily for the same reason committees exist--most Faculty members do not feel competent to dispute proposals by colleagues who have devoted time and effort to them...
...SFAC evolves, refining its working methods and solidifying its representative base, it could someday become Harvard's institutional voice in the outside world--a voice that, though desperately needed, does not exist today...
Coupled with the "shock of confrontation"--disproportionately strong for these students from privileged families--is the vision of failure these students see in the political system. The social injustice, the reaction in rioting that they see around them makes them reject the customary liberal belief that institutions already exist that can relieve the inequities. They have been around too long. Keniston writes...