Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the dorm common rooms and the Yard Program have somewhat decentralized an already amorphous freshman activity program, the Union is still the center of most of the purely freshman extra-curricular ventures. The Freshman Council, a relatively powerless group which often attracts a large group of power-minded people, is generally in charge of the Union activities, although actual execution of the programs rests with the Secretary of the Union...
...figure it, my tutor will learn to live with student power-begrudgingly but nevertheless. He may even learn to live with Eldridge Cleaver, though I'm hedging my bets. But he won't learn to live with anything or anybody that sticks an axe in his face-so why bother? In America, for the time being, revolutions are to be sold rather than made...
...people seemed not the least bit interested in seeing the strike settled, not at any rate if that entailed returning to something. For others, instead of being instant utopia, the strike was only an opportunity to wrest a few concessions from the University and declare a new balance of power. These people were actively conferring in all sorts of formal and informal bodies on issues to be launched, petitions to be drafted and meetings to be manipulated...
...first time she could remember, now, during the strike, to show that people other than fascists cared about such things as freedom of movement. By way of being sympathetic, I went with her to a class of Oscar Handlin's that turned out to deal with the innovative power of American cities around the turn of the century. I searched Professor Handlin's lecture for veiled references to the strike and found not a one. But at its finish, laying down his notes, the good professor waxed grim and offered a brief prayer that Harvard might have returned to normalcy...
...weeks ago, University Hall was filled with people who took on various combinations of these reasons. They were all of them serious people, those who were there for the power and those who were there for the aesthetic alike were serious. Romanticism is serious business...