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Pusey said that "the idea of some people-that the University is a servile slave of a rotten society-is such a deep untruth that I don't see how anyone coming to Harvard can entertain such ideas." Referring to the leaders of the April 1969 University Hall takeover, he said, "In their starry-eyed view, they think they are leading a revolution in America. They're trying to radicalize all the people. This small group of people has lived in a world of fantasy. I don't think I can reason with these people...
...Ph.D. thesis in European history at St. John's University, Queens. "This isn't the '30s," he explained. "Labor is middle class and has middle-class attitudes. We don't like students coming to tell us that everything that has made us that way is rotten and has to be destroyed." Lapham was at the head of one midtown rally last week. "The basic agreement among the workers is a protest against a small elite group who are bent on changing things regardless of majority opinion," he said later. "If the majority supports the President, then...
...both East and West Germany, the egomaniacal Führer has become something of a nonperson. The East Germans rather self-righteously disclaim any role or responsibility for the Nazi years: after all, they are Communists, and Hitler was the rotten fruit of a decaying capitalist system. For the West Germans, coming to terms with that era is more difficult...
...that trapped motorists by changing from green to red without warning, after which the travelers were ticketed by a waiting policeman. Since 1960 when the light was replaced, Ludowici's speed traps have bilked motorists of a rumored $100,000 annually. Says Governor Maddox: "The place is lousy, rotten, corrupt, nasty and no good...
White reluctance to recognize black claims to equality, linked with the "failure of the Federal Government to follow up on new civil rights laws," has produced profound cynicism about the American political system. Sixty-three percent agree that "the system is rotten and has to be changed completely for blacks to be free." This disillusionment, coupled with the presence of a Republican Administration and its actions, has almost totally alienated blacks from government, both federal and local. While the FBI receives a 50%-to-27% vote of confidence for its impartial treatment of blacks and whites, local law-enforcement authorities...