Word: monolithism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year the revolt against Bicker failed. The great monolith was too entrenched. A group of ten of the biggest men on campus got together and tried to budge it. They included the president of the Undergraduate Council, the chairman of the Daily Princetonian, the president of the Orange Key Society, five other club members and the secretary-treasurer of the class of 1969. It didn't take them long to find out that the club system with its 90 years of tradition was not about to be moved...
...tried to change the system this year took on a mammoth task. Because of new admissions policies and a zephyr of twentieth century elagitarianism, they thought that they stood a chance. But the monolith was immobile, and the Gentlemanly Revolt wouldn't work. The attitudes of the students, the administration, the aulmni were not easy to change...
...dinosaur is the Harvard Advocate, a tradition-bound and, according to Kuttner, slick monolith that has long cornered the undergraduate writing market while publishing relatively little undergraduate material. The advocate's unsatisfactory state is Scorpion's raison d'etre. But Kuttner, with his staff of six (he gave himself veto power over everything the rest of the staff does, but promised never to use it, "Or else what's the sense of having a staff?") is not out to get the Advocate, only to improve it. "The Advocate needs a pep pill -- that's us. The time is ripe...
...height of a two thousand-year development of imperial monarchy. Chairman Mao doesn't seem to know it, but he owes something of his style and world view to his predecessors in Peking in ages past. Since we have now given up calling Communism a great international monolith, everywhere and always the same, it is high time for us to examine the Chineseness which is now showing through the Communism in Peking...
Unbound by church control, the magazine takes its stand with considerable passion, and almost always on the liberal and ecumenical side. At a time when most other Protestant magazines suspiciously viewed Roman Catholicism as a formidable monolith, C & C was inviting Catholic contributors to explain the church's views on issues that caused interfaith tensions. One article two years ago by Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School suggested that it was time for Protestants to re-examine their attitude of total opposition to premarital sex. Another, by Pastor Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, proposed...