Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard College alumnus (A.B., 1939), I think your "faceless factory" analysis is apt. It is the Harvard Corporation that must go! Harvard and similar institutions should be run by scholars and scientists (faculty), some students, outside laymen...
Humphrey's Charge. Nixon's first specific crime-control proposals also have political implications. Law and order became an issue last year primarily because of ubiquitous street violence, whether perpetrated by the lone mugger or the faceless mob. The President's recommendations last week aimed at the well-nigh invisible activities of organized crime (see LAW). Attacks by multi-agency "strike forces" will be expanded. New legal tools are sought to get at both gangsters and their political accomplices. While almost any antiriot measure can be construed as anti-Negro, everyone is happy to belabor the Mafia...
Privately, a number of professors and administrators have worried for months about the possibility of "another Columbia." Like the troubled campus on Morningside Heights, Harvard, to many of its students, is a large impersonal school with a faceless administration and a brilliant faculty who are as much concerned with the demands of research as with the art of teaching. Despite its past reputation as a prim, proper school for the elite, Harvard today is undeniably hip (TIME, March 14). It has as many beards as Berkeley, as much grass as Columbia?and one of the nation's most active S.D.S...
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...major areas of City Hall's interior were designed to lend dignity to the interaction between people and government," says McKinnell. "We felt that we had a bigger client to satisfy than just municipal department heads-the citizenry. Otherwise you have 1984, with a faceless bureaucracy running your affairs for you." Whether the citizenry has come to appreciate it or not, Boston City Hall, inside and out, can hardly be accused of being faceless...