Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the bombast of demagogues and the protests of mothers, some potential moderates are hoping to translate the integration battle into a more general social conflict. Vague fears and noisy rhetoric have identified the desegregation process with other ideological issues, for men who otherwise would have gracefully acquiesced. Thus certain natives of border states, having quietly accepted integration in their own communities, devote themselves to their neighbors' resistance efforts...
None of the Band's music was insured. Officials said that the possibility of insurance was explored last spring, but was abandoned since valuation was too difficult. Replacement of the hundreds of thousands of lost sheets of music will be a "long and expensive process," according to George L. Kirklin '59, manager of the Band. Almost all of the irreplaceable scores were recovered from a metal filing cabinet, he reported...
Bleak Future. But Campbell, administering to a population of 860,000 and thus above the size generally suited for city-manager systems, soon ran into political troubles. Foolishly, he demoted Sheriff Thomas J. Kelly to a mere process server, only to have that popular vote-getter generate such heat that Campbell had to appoint him head of the big new Public Safety Department. Administrator Campbell's rigidity worried the political commissioners, who subtly retaliated by passing arbitrary ordinances for him to enforce, e.g., an apartment-only zoning rule for an area which Miami Beach had zoned for hotels...
Saving a Face. What preceded the peace was, said Bugas, "just a helluva poker game. It's a screwy process, but you have to go through with...
Since the publication of General Education in a Free Society in the early post-war years, the process of educating Harvard undergraduates has moved, sometimes unsteadily, towards the utopian never-land where independent study is matched in excellence only by a scholarly and articulate expression of ideas, great and trivial...