Word: gradualists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support of King Feisal, who was said to feel chagrined that his advice to the Egyptian President about ousting the Russians had been mistaken. Libya's hotheaded strongman Muammar Gaddafi (TIME cover, April 2) wanted to unite with Egypt immediately; Sadat persuaded him instead to accept a gradualist approach to the merger (partly as a result, Gaddafi has sulked and done little during the current fighting...
...Woodstock nation, the Wallace nation, and the liberals. But Woodstock was not the radical political convention that Revel calls it. Nor have dissenters forced the United States out of Vietnam. Nor does the fight over bussing indicate increasing racial harmony. Nor is half the country anxious for even a gradualist liberal revolution. Revel has declared victory even when the few skirmishes he chooses to analyze remain in doubt...
...entail an incredible complication of mechanics, especially in determining the number of students who should have such a role, how they should be chosen, and whether they should be involved in deciding appointments. Perhaps the Governance Committee should have recommended a full voting role, but instead it preferred a "gradualist approach" where-by an increased number of students would attend faculty meetings on a regular and more participatory basis...
There is also the danger that, without immediate student voting participation, the Law School Council and all its ramifications for long-range student participation at faculty meetings will ultimately fall into apathetic disrepair. But if students seriously desire an eventual voting role, they must recognize that a "gradualist approach" is essential and they must make it work-no faculty at Harvard is going to dole out its privileges to persons who have not first proved themselves to be potentially responsible voting members. In many ways, the Law School has become a testing ground for the rest of the University...
After dismissing a voting role for students at faculty meetings as inappropriate at this time, the Committee on Governance opts for a "gradualist approach" whereby five permanent members of the proposed Law School Council, student representatives of committees with business on the agenda and five "random" students are entitled to participate in faculty meetings...