Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least of all Mario ("Will you please stop calling me Mr. Procaccino?"), would dispute the Democratic candidate's credentials to lead the revolt of the average man. He is as common as the machine clubhouse, a journeyman politician who worked hard, if without special distinction, and waited his turn. As he insists on informing people on every street corner, he is "not pretty" ? a useful attribute, he feels, in his war with Lindsay and the Beautiful Peo ple. He wears electric-blue suits and watermelon-pink shirts and in speech and gesture accentuates the ethnic...
Alerted by Joseph Kraft's recent newspaper column, Boston newspapermen swarmed outside yesterday's Faculty meeting to see if Kraft's prediction of a Faculty revolt against the Harvard Administration would come true...
...reporters went away disappointed. No open revolt occurred at the meeting. There were, however, enough sharp voices of Faculty discontent to indicate that some very bitter fighting may be expected in the future, when the Faculty takes up two touchy questions: how it will discipline its members, and how it is to be governed (the Fainsod report...
...committees-one established by the Overseers, the otrer by the Faculty- do continue to explore governance, their reports could be quite different. And that difference might set the stage for the Faculty revolt expected yesterday, if it hasn't already happened by then...
What enabled the revolt to break out so quickly and brutally was the rigidity of the university structure, which knew only one way of change-rupture. The government and not the faculty controls the university. They decide everything from how much money is spent to what time the classes are given. There are no "intermediate institutions"-no student-faculty committees which can often muffle and absorb a conflict as at Harvard. If anything goes wrong it is brought straight to the ministry. In a system with such little leeway for evolution, any change was a radical change and any serious...