Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt against Mayor Richard Daley is being staged in Illinois by dissident Democrats. The movement's unofficial leader: State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, who last month helped found a legislative study group in the state capital of Springfield. The group's aim is to end the feudal system of Democratic party politics within the state and to broaden participation in policymaking. To give the group the aura of legitimacy, Stevenson asked Hubert Humphrey to drop by and confer the blessing of his titular party leadership...
...sure that our Faculty shares with the students a deep interest in the grading system and its effects upon the learning process at the Law School. I am equally sure that the Faculty shares my willingness to discuss the problems of grading at any convenient time with any group of law students...
...view of the complex issues involved, however, it would be irresponsible for me to try to predict at this time whether or not the Faculty can fully consider and act upon a proposal to reform the grading system before the end of the academic year, since the Faculty has not even seen the proposal in question and since the Faculty is already heavily engaged in working out various other proposals and new programs which other groups of students are eager to have resolved. Dean Bok Dean of the Law School
...crew you have hard of before: Richard Rovere of the New Yorker, Russell Baker of the Times, Murray Kempton of the New Republic and the New York Post, Hugh Sidey of Time-Life, and so on. It is a magazine "to help you understand our system of politics and government, where it breaks down, why it breaks down, and what can be done to make it work...
...rolling again this year. This magazine is based on a commitment to the machine--again, a responsibility to the whole country. "How do we make 1969 The Year Democracy Starts its Comeback?" an ad asks. "Not with fists and four-letter words, but with reasoned appraisals of our system--its institutions, its men, its hangups." It sounds like the Peace Corps, where we teach other countries how to build their own wonderful machines...