Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, a key element in the Marxist vision was his effort to channel the anarchistic spirit so that it would be in favor of industrialism but opposed to the capitalists. His intellectual support of the new order fused with his passionate sense of justice to shape a way of being that was simultaneously on the side of progress and in revolt against its present villains who controlled both government and the means of production. This ambivalent way of dealing with the stress of rapid social change retains its appeal for many men today...
...became a candidate in the first place to avoid a confrontation between Gaullism and Communism, and I succeeded because I came in second," he explained. What is more, he intended to step up the fight, abandoning his earlier tactic of campaigning only by TV and press conference in favor of a jetliner tour of twelve cities in five days. His determination remained in spite of editorials in the prestigious Le Monde and Le Figaro urging him to withdraw and of desertions among his key backers. Poher himself indulged in few illusions about the outcome, hinting that his only goal...
...dialogue in the University abetted those who refused any dialogue at all. Those who came in with the hope of improving the University, served those who wanted to shut it down. Those who came to protest against Vietnam, the very symbol of violence, became the hostages of those who favor violence as the method of change...
November 7: A traditional "heckling debate" in Harvard's public speaking course led to a potentially explosive situation. One student came to the debate dressed as a Klansman and argued in favor of the proposition that "Black Power is ruining America." Although the debate directors and the student himself said that their intent was harmless, black students objected immediately. A statement from a black freshman and the president of Afro said that the debate topic was comparable to "having a debate on the extermination of Jews--and bringing in one participant dressed as a Nazi...
...will in addition lure back to Cambridge and Boston students and faculty now living in the suburbs. Furthermore, existing Harvard housing now occupied by graduate students (such as Peabody Terrace) cannot be opened to non-Harvard residents without substantially increasing rents (even assuming, implausibly, that displacing students in favor of others would solve either group's housing problem). Such student buildings are legally exempt from taxation, though voluntary payments to the city in lieu of taxes are now made. Admitting non-students would terminate the tax exemption, the property taxes to be paid would be larger than the present...