Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small group of undergraduates has launched a self-proclaimed "Conspiracy Against Harvard Education" to protest the "huge gaps" in education at the University...
...voicelessness of the faculty only aided Kirk's assumption of power. Under Kirk's predecessor. Nicholas Butler, the various departments and professional schools increased their self-centered autonomy. No faculty body was broad enough to seriously challenge major administrative decisions. Divided into three branches, the undergraduate faculty, lacked even a joint senate in which to voice complaints. Arbitrary administration and an inactive faculty voice made hope of changing university policy in "normal" channels dismally dim. By then the wall was ready for the stick...
...part of you, and as you would fight to stay alive, so you would fight to protect you land from dismemberment. Only such strong feelings can serve to explain how Zapata and his followers could have made the terrible, ruinous journey they made. Their revolution demanded of them a self-sacrifice which few of us, with our theories and our brains and our shifting loyalties, could make...
...self-denying care with which the Boston planners have tried to build a national model might be pitiful if the rest of the nation paid no attention. But the relative wave of excitement that has swept through the American medical community since the Harvard plan was announced suggests that Pollack may indeed be setting a pattern for national reform...
...jokes ("I greatly appreciate music. You know that's one place I'm like Harry Truman--I used to play the Piano myself.") the bilingual wisecracks ("We have to quit thinking of Latin America in terms of siestas, manana, Rumba, Samba, and Cha-Cha-Cha." Cha-Cha-Cha!), the self-deprecating quips ("I'm a dropout from the Electrol College. I flunked debating...