Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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(Then came his denial of membership in any Harvard purge committees of the mid Fifties.)
The quotes are not verbatim but are accurate to the best of my memory. Dean Price is well suited to his role in the purge. His practiced eye sees through the facade of a fight against ROTC and Harvard expansion and gets to the real core of the difficulty-misconduct...
One student told Price, "We've heard that you were active in the Harvard purge committees in 1952 and 1953." Price replied that he had not come to Harvard until 1958.
The Regents' meagre enthusiasm for the course-creating committees vanished as soon as they heard about Cleaver. In a swift purge, the Regents banned the Cleaver course, crippled the student-faculty committees, and touched off immediate student protests. A series of abortive moves by both sides followed. But the issue...
YOU MIGHT think that the psychological release this impotent little man got through venting his latent anger on a mythological figure like the Sheik was harmless, if not therapeutic. But the scapegoat phenomenon proved to excite rather than to purge the audience.