Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In his role of back-room Moses, Wehner led the Social Democrats out of their postwar desert of opposition into full participation in government. A onetime Communist who broke with his Red masters during World War II, Wehner perceived in the 1950s that the Social Democrats' Marxist shibboleths and...
After the war, Randolph developed into a cantankerous, litigious gadfly who showed Churchillian propensities for good drink and ridicule, but lacked his father's offsetting attributes of literary genius and intellectual brilliance. He failed in three more attempts to win a seat in Parliament, cranked out nine undistinguished books...
IN THE aftermath of Columbia's turmoil, an obvious question arises: Could it happen here? Could Harvard have an explosion of similar proportions? At Columbia there was an appalling lack of flexibility on the part of the president and trustees; the university also had no machinery for involving students and...
The Dow protest, which demonstrated the value of a loose administrative structure, also illustrated the difficulty of predicting what issues will be provocative enough to generate students' use of force. The protest against University "war complicity" was definitely secondary to opposition against the destructive war itself.
When one so well-informed and powerful presents a program the tendency towards idle opposition slight. As one professor has put it, "I am predisposed not to kick over the traces." His remark does not mean members of the Faculty will not fight strenously when they delieve something is wrong...