Word: trumpbour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...essays in the newest "How Harvard Rules" focus on what Trumpbour calls a frustrating breach between rehetoric and reality within the University...
...example Trumpbour says that during the 350th celebration there were many speeches praising Harvard's dedication to liberty and free speech over the centuries, and one speaker stressed Harvard's role in fighting the McCarthyism in the 1950s...
...reality, Harvard had a shameful record--if you were a conservative or even a liberal who was accussed, Harvard would help you, but if you really were a socialist, Harvard would just throw you into [McCarthy's] hands," Trumpbour says...
...things have not changed much since then, the history graduate student says. President Bok is a popular president but his progressive rehetoric rarely translates into concrete action, Trumpbour says, adding that the framework of the government of the University prevents most changes...
...McCarthy and Nixon called Harvard the 'Kremlin on the Charles,' they viewed the university as very radical, but it really is conservative on many fronts," Trumpbour says...