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...they have been playing explanatory catch-up ball ever since. Now there are at last two provocative books that go a long way toward explaining both the Reagan landslide and the political division that has been its ironic consequence: The New Class War, by leftist political scientists Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, and Post-Conservative America, by conservative commentator Kevin Phillips. Both works bear the ideological imprint of their authors; but both are also tough-minded and refreshingly iconoclastic examinations of the social forces that are shaping American politics...
Though members say the fact that all but one of their 21 members are Black remains secondary to their stated purpose, that fact figures in the topics they choose for their forums. Upcoming lectures in the series include Francis Fox Piven on Blacks in electoral politics, Noam Chomsky on human rights and U.S. foreign policy, Jonathan King on the politics of biotechnology, and the Rev. Steven short and Alvin Poussaint on the imposition of American cultural on Black male-female relationships...
...group, named the Committee To Save B.U., is gathering petitition signatures for a special meeting of the faculty. Frances Fox Piven, B.U. professor of political science and an organizer of the committee, said yesterday. A resolution calling for Silber's resignation will be presented at the faculty meeting, Piven said...
...committee is not now officially allied with unions for the faculty or clerical workers, but Piven said she expected the committee to receive support from students and employees...
...Piven said the committee was encountering difficulty in gathering signatures because of fear of reprisals. Junior professors fear losing their jobs and senior professors worry about being denied salary increases and sabbaticals, she said