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...Harvard rhetoric is any indication the University may find a paper wall erected around its current campus. Chances are, had the exemption been repealed 15 years ago. Mather House would not have been built. Certainly Harvard would have had a much more difficult time constructing the Radcliffe Gym, which powerless neighbors squawked about to small avail. And 7 Sumner Rd. would probably still be an apartment building--and nothing else...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: On Shaky Ground | 7/11/1980 | See Source »

...which characterize mass culture." Carl Degler's At Odds fascinatingly traces the decline of the patriarchy and the liberalization of the family from the Revolution to the present. Many of the new social views of history amount to cultural anthropology Some of them, being the annals of the powerless, are inherently biased against those in power; the approach may be as much a fallacy as the old history style that lays down the American past in four-and eight-year strips, measuring time only by the tour of the man in the White House. Historians are filling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rediscovering America | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...regard for the environmental havoc it might cause in nearby residential areas, and fought desperately against efforts to make the plant's operation cleaner. Harvard acts as though it exists in a vacuum, and pays no attention to the repercussions of its actions in Cambridge. Today the city is powerless to do much beyond draping City Hall in purple bunting to mourn its problems; but if the day should come when it can act against the University--and it may be approaching--the city may respond to its years of ill treatment with disregard for Harvard's needs in return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shunning Responsibility | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...centrifugal forces, Quebec's referendum vote may will lessen its leverage; Levesque, the loser, will represent Quebec as long as he manages to cling to power. And he is under no obligation to call an election until late 1981. The winner of the plebiscite, Ryan, will wallow at home, powerless to forward his programs, for he remains merely leader of the opposition...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: If at First You Don't Secede... | 5/27/1980 | See Source »

...that Finland is so thoroughly intimidated by the neighboring Soviets that it dares take no action that might offend them. In the opinion of Raymond Aron, a leading French political analyst, the process has already begun in Europe. Says Aron: "Finlandization starts in the mind. If a nation acts powerless and terrified, that's called Finlandization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm over the Alliance | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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