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...Rome pushed back, and the ensuing struggle defined a movement, whose icons included peace activist Fr. Daniel Berrigan, feminist Sister Joan Chittister, and sociologist/author Fr. Andrew Greeley. Its perspectives were covered in The National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal and America. Martin Sheen held down Hollywood, and the movement even boasted its own cheesy singing act: the St. Louis Jesuits. The reformers' premier membership organization was Call to Action, but their influence was felt at the highest reaches of the American Church, as sympathetic American bishops passed left-leaning statements on nuclear weapons and economic justice. Remarks Tilley, "For a couple...
...IOP’s director. “And students are particularly interested in the politics of their hometown.” Karen A. McKinnon ’10, of Boulder, Colo., experienced those benefits directly. Upon approaching Edward Clark, Jr.—the newly elected mayor of Greeley, Colo.—she found that her extracurricular interests had a place in her state’s local politics. “I mentioned how I was very into environmentalism, and he said that Greeley didn’t really have a recycling program,” McKinnon...
...Henry N. Lamar award given to the program’s most dedicated player, and senior center David Paine was honored with the William Paine LaCroix Trophy, given to the most enthusiastic and loyal Crimson football player. Senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti won the team’s Frederick Greeley Crocker Award, which has in recent years been deemed the Most Valuable Player award for the team. In a speech early in the evening, Bagdis read a prepared statement thanking his family, teammates and coaches for their support during his four years as a Harvard football player. “Thank...
Sixty years later, the Democrats faced another incumbent President: war hero Ulysses Grant. To oppose him they tapped Horace Greeley, an eccentric idealist and newspaper editor. Greeley had been an opponent of slavery (he urged Abraham Lincoln to abolish it even before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued) and a supporter of protective tariffs--all anathema to the Democrats of his day. But after the Civil War, Greeley's idealism found a new cause: reaching out to white Southerners by ending Reconstruction. The Democrats, eager to restore the political power of their Southern soul mates, were willing to overlook Greeley...
Outsiders and rebels add drama to political life. They also often fail. Clinton, Greeley and Willkie lost their respective elections and had little effect on the parties that they had represented. Only Reagan reached the White House and left a permanent mark on politics. An argument that Alexis de Tocqueville made about history applies to political parties as well: aristocratic ages are shaped by a few individuals; democratic ages, by many acting at once. Parties are mule teams with millions of mules. It takes a great deal to get them to change direction...