Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like signing on to administer the Munich pact in 1939. With its financial base (government and foundation grants) crumbling, Harvard is committed already to several new and costly projects (The Afro-American Research Institute, merger with Radcliffe, Gund Hall, and the new science center). The Faculty is divided and restless. The students, united and angry...
...accomplish this he roared into last summer's Nancy election with all the pizazz of a Kennedy seeking re-election in Massachusetts. He won with a surprisingly wide margin (55%), and tried the same techniques in Bordeaux -the frantic jetting from place to place, the restless copying machine ever churning out press releases, the coveys of attractive, midiskirted female assistants. He spoke endlessly in schools and public halls, garnering crowds of 2,000 and more-something unheard of in Bordeaux elections. As usual, he attracted hordes of newsmen complete with television lights and cameras. The sober daily Le Monde...
Even before the caucuses began to control the Faculty in the Spring of 1969, the lines between them had been drawn on small issues. The day after students sat in at Paine Hall, the Dean of the Faculty asked for a vote of confidence. The Faculty, restless and disturbed that this kind of disturbance was possible, tabled the motion. "That was the beginning of a revolution," one professor said. Very soon afterward, the conservative caucus met officially...
...million are landless laborers, and that more than 40% of the nation's 49 million cultivated holdings are smaller than the 2.5 acres needed for viable farming. The leftist parties seek to dramatize the point that unless the government puts into practice its long-promised land reform, restless peasants will take matters into their own hands. The specter that haunts responsible Indian leaders is that next time the marchers may be led by a new and vicious political sect that has made peasant rebellion and mayhem parts of its policy...
...heavy and constant bombardment of their island fortress in doing so. But in late 1920, as the conflict drew to a close, they were becoming highly sensitive to the wave of strikes and peasant revolts which began sweeping the country with the tightening of the government's reins. "A restless and independent breed who loathed all privilege and authority," Paul Avrich writes in Kronstadt 1921, "They seemed forever on the verge of exploding into open violence against their officers or against the central government, which they regarded as an alien and a coercive force...