Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contend that we today are simply nineteenth-century imperialists come back to life, any more than Chairman Mao is actually a resurrected Son of Heaven in a blue boiler suit...
...Peking leaders of today remind one of the leaders of the Taiping rebellion of the 1850's who picked up Christianity as a foreign ideology, rebuilt it to suit their needs, and took over half the country. The Taipings came from the back country, not from the foreign trade centers. They began as a secret society with a cult, invoked the radical tradition in the Chinese classics, and sought a utopian collective or communal society, at one time even segregating the sexes. But the Taiping leaders were so dogmatic and doctrinaire that they alienated both the Chinese scholar class...
Bowles repeatedly petitioned the Corporation to take no action until constitutional issues raised in the M.I.T. suit are settled. Harvard had nothing to lose by quietly honoring Bowles's request for a postponement until that suit is adjudicated. Sargent Kennedy, Secretary to the Corporation, has insisted that Harvard "had no choice but to obey the laws of the Commonwealth." Yet he has admitted that a college or university cannot be prosecuted if one of its teachers refuses to sign the oath; the University would not have been liable if it had held off until the fall, when the M.I.T. case...
...acting prematurely, the Corporation has not only involved itself in an unnecessary law suit, but has also given tacit approval to an oath many of its Faculty find reprehensible. Members of the Faculty have refused to sign the oath before, but have always capitulated when the Corporation suggested they were endangering their positions. Few Faculty members, especially junior faculty who feel hostile toward the oath, can afford to put their jobs on the line when the threat to academic freedom is unspecified and the President and Fellows offer them little support...
...Civil Liberties Research Service, a Law School group, will begin to work this week on the Bowles case. Bowles has filed suit to force the University to reinstate him, and the Service will do the "library work" for his attorney, Jerold Berlin...