Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...council, of course, has much less power than the City Manager, but it retains one vital power: firing the City Manager. Two Cambridge City Mangers have been fired within the last three years. The threat of another firing would probably assure that the current manager, James L. Sullivan, would follow up on his promising beginning in the housing area. Sullivan is reputed to want to "make a name for himself" while City Manager here; beginning a large-scale program for construction of low-rent housing by the City and the universities would be one good...
Until the acceptances come out next month, even Harrison won't know for sure what kind of a freshman team he'll have next season. But some of the other Eastern coaches already see the Crimsons a building power...
...felt the CRIMSON report was extremely mild, as do others outside the department with whom I have spoken. When the report appeared, it was the automatic reaction of many in the department that because I was a radical, I had the power to influence the slant of the article, which they felt indicated some sort of radical onslaught in the department. (Not sharing the prevalent view of departmental sanctity, I had originally called in the reporter.) If I indeed wield such power, I feel mildly flattered. But in fact Scott Jacobs consulted three other people whose political views are considerably...
...bring into perspective the power of radical views, now the focus of much anxiety in the Harvard community: before Monday's meeting I had met a few times with several other graduate students in comp lit. We had all discussed problems relating to our lives in the department and to the practice of the profession of teaching of literature, the cultural imperialism latent in such notions as that of "great traditions," the oppressive nature of professionalism, the way the job market dictates one's choice of field--and explained my views at some length. The others felt that these ideas...
...FAIRLY clear by now that the Nixon Administration does not intend to change U.S. policy in Vietnam. After two months of power, Nixon has given no indication of any shift away from the Johnson Administration's insistence on dictating South Vietnam's future, and the American negotiators in Paris continue to behave as though there were any legitimate claims in Vietnam about which to negotiate. Meanwhile U.S. and Vietnamese casualties continue to rise. Secretary Laird makes bland predictions about keeping half a million men in Vietnam for "at least" two years, and there are ominous rumors of a resumption...