Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campuses of the U.S. last week. There were disruptive demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins, clashes with police, confrontations between students and what has now become the ultimate sign of defiance-students standing against authority with firearms in their hands. The dynamics of student discontent have obviously produced an ominous rise in the frequency and intensity of protest. Now there are unmistakable signs that it has also produced something else: a growing feeling throughout the nation that the rebels have at last gone too far. If there was one word that summarized the feelings of much of the U.S. toward the radicals...
...members), which retains control; the People's Liberation Army segment (six members), which mistrusts Lin because he espoused the extremism and instability of the Cultural Revolution; and the so-called Pragmatists, which now encompasses only Chou and Li Hsien-nien. The key factor in the changes is the rise to power of military leaders who do not necessarily favor Lin and his slavish support of Mao's all-out radicalization. With Chou's moderate faction hit hard, the new army types are expected to take over Chou's old job of tempering Maoist extremism...
Supported by an aide and two nurses, former Portuguese Premier Antonio Salazar appeared on the balcony of his palatial Lisbon house to greet the crowd that had gathered to honor his 80th birthday and the 41st anniversary of his rise to power. It was the venerable strongman's first public appearance since he suffered a massive stroke seven months ago, and for a moment he looked like his old imposing self, raising his right hand in a characteristic gesture. Later he appeared on television, and in a pathetically feeble voice thanked the nation for its concern for his welfare...
...Barzun's book is by far the best book on universities that has been published in the past (This judgment excludes Riesman and Jencks' Academic Revolution, which is a fine history of higher education in America, but which has some glaring commissions on federal influence and the rise of the multiversity.) Barzun's book was generally discredited by the liberals who read this sort of thing. He appeared to be too much of an educational elitist, and he made some nasty remarks about students. And he seemed to be against progress...
...Calkins also began to rise in Cleveland educational circles. In 1961, he told the city's Adult Education Council that it needed to put some enthusiasm into its commitment to educational excellence. In late 1962, he gave a much-publicized speech at the Ohio School Board convention in Columbus...