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This year at Harvard five main issues have divided the University. To a large extent the same forces have lined up against each other in each controversy-most of the student body and a minority of professors against the Administration and another faction of the Faculty. Caught in the middle are the apolitical Faculty and students...
Though the two SDS factions complemented one another in one sense, in the long run they were incompatible. At stake were not only specific ideological points but two drastically different approaches to politics. As revolutionaries, the short-haired PL'ers always resembled Lenin: intense, hardworking, and following on ideology which- no matter how far removed from reality- had at least a rigorous internal consistency. By contrast, New Left members resembled Che Gucvara: they sported long hair, waxed as romantic revolutionaries, and stressed ideology less than I got feeling to pick up a gun and fight. The tensions between these...
MOREOVER, as a result of the split, each faction moved to strengthen its position vis a vis the other and, in the process, moved further away from the mainstream of Harvard life. Trying to begin organizing workers, WSA members began getting jobs, often full-time ones, as workers at Harvard or in Cambridge and treated the University to the amusing spectacle of seeing its recent graduates sling hash in the dining halls. Members of NAC also tried to find a revolutionary constituency: they searched among Greater Boston blacks, tenant unions, street people and working class teenagers...
...part of an institution with those pretensions." In view of SDS accusations that the moderate leadership sought to sell out the strike, and Steven Kelman's contention that the moderates were mindless running dogs for SDS instigators, it is refreshing to hear a response from the moderate faction that rises to the level of coherent political analysis. And Zorza offers a vital yet rarely grasped insight into the thinking of the conservative academic...
...Ways and Means Committee declined to be the opposition's candidate for Speaker. Mills, an Arkansan popular with fellow Southerners, is one of the few members who might have been able to rally a majority of the Democratic caucus against McCormack. Last year part of the liberal faction put up Arizona's Morris Udall, but a coalition of Southerners and members loyal to big city Democratic machines re-elected McCormack...