Word: ferments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, the campus was being kept in ferment by Rudd, an improbable young revolutionary from a middle-class neighborhood in Maplewood, N.J., whose father deals in real estate, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Capable of inflammatory rhetoric on an improvised platform but often disarmingly polite with his professorial elders. Mark Rudd is a B +average junior majoring in European history. A one time Boy Scout troop leader, Rudd joined the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society last year, lives in an off-campus apartment adorned with posters of Mao and Che (he visited Cuba...
...addition, liberalization, with its emphasis on individual rights, also fosters an awareness of the rights of individual states--nationalism. The connection between liberalization and nationalism is strong and it is in these terms as well as in terms of the split between Bureaucrats and Intellectuals that the current ferment in Eastern Europe can be understood...
This intellectual ferment clearly reaches far beyond Vietnam. The practical problem of the war has triggered discussions of a more philosophical bent...
...THIS FERMENT in political science has also affected the process of regeneration, the educational system that turns out new political scientists. Are the minds of young political scientists being trained properly...
Activism is one sign of the increasing ferment in political science. Feelings of guilt and responsibility have made this ferment a particularly poignant issue for political scientists...