Word: role
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...opinion of Historian Sidney Hyman (The Politics of Consensus), Nixon's new role as a conciliator is another example of the "politics of reverse images," which changes many men who enter the White House. F.D.R., the aristocrat, became known, for example, as the man of the people. Dwight Eisenhower, the general, became the peacemaker. Richard Nixon, the abrasive partisan, has-so far anyway-been neither abrasive nor partisan. Though it is too early to speculate whether Nixon will be a good or bad President-it is probably impossible to be a mediocre President today-it is not too early...
...taking over the offices. One woman reported that Lee bit her arm when she reached into his car. For Britain it was precisely the sort of dubious victory that accords with the reality of its reduced state in the world. It could also signal a new role for the British-as the world's Keystone cops...
...Regents came across the name of Herbert Marcuse. Now there was a name that Reagan recognized. If there was any person more offensive to Reagan's concept of orderly campuses than Eldridge Cleaver, it would have to be Marcuse. For several months Reagan had fumed about Marcuse's role in fanning protest flames that the Regents' fire brigade was trying to put out. How can we ever stop these riots, Reagan would say, when we have that man Marcuse on one of our own campuses...
...Committee on Faculty Organization (Fainsod Committee) will hold an open meeting to hear proposals on the role of students in Faculty decision-making 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. tonight in Geological Lecture Room. Representatives of student organizations or individual students who wish to present proposals should get in touch with Professor Merle Fainsod, chairman of the Committee, today. Professor Fainsod can be reached at the Director's Office, Widener Library on Extension 2401. The Committee will welcome written statements as well as oral presentations...
...important thing to be said about them. For the universities can also serve as centers of radical criticism--or, if one prefers the term, of subversion. There is nothing particularly incompatible about these dual functions of the American university, and history may yet show that the university's subversive role was far more important that its supportive...