Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says. And he adds that some of this instinctive fear, a gut-level memory of 1969, persists in Faculty attitudes toward student activism. "If the South Africa issue mushroomed--though I don't think it would be the same because Bok is not Pusey--there would be a Pavlovian reaction," he notes...
...conservative senior members of the Faculty--those who believed in Harvard as a "fortress of principle," as Pipes puts it--the student occupation of University Hall, the ensuing strike, and the Faculty's reaction to those events all combined to pose a serious threat to the existence of the University as they knew it ten years...
...events of April 1969 "shattered Harvard's consensus" and "left many wounds," as Pipes says, there is uncertainty over the extent to which those cleavages remain. Within the Faculty, a few professors may bear old grudges--but reaction to the Core Curriculum, for instance, has not broken down along the old "liberal" and "conservative" lines. Wilson notes that he is working closely with old antagonists from 1969, such as Government Professors Michael L. Walzer and Stanley Hoffmann...
...most devastating long-term effects of the strike events, says Wilson, was "the legitimization of mass protest techniques which were used repeatedly in ways that inhibited academic freedom. Controversial subjects were not discussed because of fear of the reaction; outside speakers with unpopular views could not appear." Wilson says it took five to seven years before this fear dissipated...
Although we did not take part in the boycott of classes today, this does not mean that we do not care about Harvard's reaction to an apartheid system that the Harvard Corporation itself has labelled "repugnant and inhuman." We are not convinced that immediate divestiture is the most effective means of exerting a force for change in South Africa; and, for this reason, we cannot support an action with immediate divestiture as its stated goal...