Word: reined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Growing Disorder. Mao seems more worried than ever over the fragmentation of the Cultural Revolution that he unleashed nine months ago. The Red Guards, who were his first chosen instruments for rooting out his opponents, have become so unruly and fractious that chances are Mao could not rein them in all by himself; in any event, he appears too fearful of a rebuff to try. As for the party, Mao quite openly distrusts it, fearing that the loyalty of many party members still belongs to his archenemy, President Liu Shao-chi. Mao had little choice but to place...
What is more, professionalism has made school system bureaucracies even more resistant to change than many types of centralized administration. Instead of just using professionals, Americans have stood in awe of them. With free rein from parents, threatened educators have had simply to cry out in order to raise massive public opposition to any external pressure. Thus insulated, bureaucracies have proliferated free of the outside influences which counteract normal hierarchic inflexibilities...
...keep gripes at a minimum, 51 students sit on the university's advisory councils, are given free rein to criticize policy. Oklahoma accepted its first Negro student in 1948, is one of the most successfully integrated state universities in the Southwest: there are about 450 Negro students...
...three riding events requires different skills and tactics. In both saddle bronc and bareback riding, a cowboy must keep his balance on a bucking horse for 8 sec.-while holding on with only one hand. But a saddle bronc is outfitted with a saddle, stirrups, a halter and one rein, while the only thing a bareback rider can hang onto is a leather belt, fastened around the horse's belly. It isn't enough merely to stay on for 8 sec.; each cowboy is also rated on the quality of his ride-which means spurring the horse into...
...dismay with the government will, perhaps, be difficult to dispel. Yet the Institute, with free rein to invite just about anyone in government and to set up just about any kind of program it wants, is in a unique position to try. One effort perhaps should be to invite as honorary associates young and imaginative newcomers to the federal and state governments -- officials like Senator Mark O. Hatfield, or Mitchell Sviridoff of New York City's anti-poverty program -- who can give students an idea of the possibilities and excitement of politics and public service. The Institute could also...