Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the reading, DelBanco discussed with the audience the process of writing and rewriting the story. "I spent less time on the blithe action of construction than on the bilious act of reconstruction," the author said...
...willingness to focus on the issues of governance and process has stripped the divestment movement of any of its force. Last weekend's protest--both inside and outside 17 Quincy--were a painful demonstration of the activists' impotence. In the meeting, "insurgent" Overseers spent as much time arguing about Robert's Rules of Order as about South African investments. Outside, protesters listened to speakers: one from the African National Congress, a former state representative and an erstwhile activist who favors army surplus clothing and an earring. None of the Overseers took special notice of the protest, which has become...
...convince the Corporation of the errors of its ways. Protesters are no longer bringing important issues to light and forcefully impressing them on the Harvard consciousness--this used to be the way to unite the student body and produce reform. They are only becoming institutionalized within the Harvard administrative process...
Perhaps activists feel proud that they have won access to Harvard's decision-making process. But they have only played into the University's hands. Their demands are now filled with talk of "governance" and of "freedom" of speech and movement; virtually gone is the word "divestment." If the campus activist movement inherited anything from the sixties, it should have learned that only violent, disruptive tactics will force the Administration to change its ways...
...drawn to a candidate I believe in, someone who could possibly carry the goals and ideals I found in the '60s. His whole campaign has been a healing process for the party. He's talking about issues and people we've ignored for years: drugs and economic devastation, issues that transcend ethnic and religious problems. The other candidates are just politicians. I can't get excited about them...