Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Special Subcommittee on Education, chaired by Rep. Edith Green (D.-Ore), continued hearings it began last fall on campus disturbances. Most of the testimony before the Green Committee came from leading college administrators and faculty, including Harvard's President Pusey, and Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
...report acknowledged that larger social problems such as the Vietnam war and the condition of urban American were important factors leading to college disturbances. The Congressmen--two of whom spent some days at Harvard interviewing students. Faculty and Administrators--also voiced strong support for what has come to be known as "university restructuring," to increase the responsiveness of universities to student concerns. The report, which was released just before hearings on the Erlenborn bill began, probably helped to swing some Republican Congressmen on the Green subcommittee against the bill...
...American movies was their dramatic and visual design. They were narrative dramas of personal experience and development in which the characters expressed whatever the film's makers wanted to say. The physical and spiritual effect of events on the characters was the means of describing their physical and social environments. (An example of a different sort of drama is seen in Eisenstein. He composed masses of people in images whose dynamics directly express his intended meaning without the mediation--reactions--of individual figures...
...hurts me--and I am sure I cannot explain the reasons to you if you do not feel the same hurt--to think that anyone would plead to this sensitive and conscience-ridden institution for amnesty if he meant to prick only its social conscience. To tell a professor that you occupied University Hall to free his life style is insulting and saddening. And, if you can't cope with the whole atmosphere of the place ("because they are trying to squeeze the life out of you") ... you could leave...
...university is now fulfilling extraordinary social functions for the students, functions which should perhaps not be built into its formal structure. The university is trying to do its proper job, and its proper job is oppressive to some students, here and now. Because not everyone should go to college. And because not everyone should go to college full time...