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Perhaps it is going too far to suggest that Dean Monro has been Machiavellian enough to foment the present furor deliberately in order to win Faculty members to his side. Yet the Dean's apparent satisfaction at having the controversy reach Sunday supplements across the country is most disquieting. Harvard has always tried to prevent the emotions of the outside world from shaping University policy. It does not, as a rule, care to have its decisions made by national debate. Now, the Dean, having conducted a discussion in a way that assured tremendous publicity, welcomes further discussion with the hope...
...violent throes of political unification came late to Italy: only a century ago, musketry crackled across the gentle countryside depicted in Renaissance landscapes, and pictures of red-shirted Risorgimento Leader Garibaldi hung beside Crucifixion scenes on many an Italian's wall. During this era of foment, a group of Tuscan artists banded together at the Cafe Michelangelo in Florence to protest the Florentine Academy's insistence upon slick studio painting that absented itself from what was going on. These artists became known as the macchiaioli, who painted with splashes, macchie, of color...
...only one village and its farm lands and buildings; their other holdings must be sold to the government at specified prices for distribution to sharecropping farmers. Along with most of the other 450 wealthy families, the landlords of Fars have fought the land distribution law by helping to foment street riots in Teheran, falsifying ownership records with the connivance of provincial officials, forging ballots in local elections. Recently, the landlords won powerful allies by enlisting Moslem mullahs who are using their pulpits to frighten illiterate, landless peasants out of demanding their legal rights...
...message, addressed to a close friend at home. Yet--and it makes no difference here whether the post card was intercepted in the mails or discovered on the ground somewhere--the organizers of the demonstration apparently felt no qualms about reproducing it by the thousands and using it to Foment a demonstration...
...China, in the middle '20s, the youthful Vietnamese Communist, Ho Chi Minh, had formed his "Young Vietnamese Revolutionary League," was sending agents and propaganda south to foment trouble in Viet Nam itself. Soon Ho's products were showing up by the bushel in Diem's area. Diem himself was already a fervent nationalist, but he was shocked by the extremist cries for violence. Energetically he went to work arresting local Communists, gathering material for a 15-page anti-Communist booklet, which he distributed throughout his area. Rising rapidly to become a provincial governor at 28, Diem went to work...