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...certain number of professors too, the views I hold in this respect will seem not only lacking in conventional politeness but lacking also in substantial precedent. The first is true: the second is an error. The same ideas have been expressed in every generation for a hundred years. Emerson, Upton Sinclair, and Charles Sumner, all at one time or other, spoke directly of the hypocritical and self-serving character of Harvard College...
...career of Patriots General Manager Upton Bell took a plunge to the bottom yesterday, as he was fired from his post with the NFI team. The Patriots explained the move by saying that they wanted their new coach to have complete control of the team. Bell had a reputation for meddling with the programs of his coaches...
Halfback Carl Garrett was suspended yesterday by the New England Patriots for the rest of the season. Garrett, the team's leading ground gainer, was suspended by interim head coach Phil Bengston and general manager. Upton Bell after he missed yesterday's practice...
Sense of Unease. Muckraking seems to be a cyclical phenomenon. Its classic period came between 1902 and 1912, when Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair exposed civic corruption and business chicanery. It diminished in the 1920s, revived briefly during the Depression, and then went into eclipse again during the long period of post-World War II prosperity and contentment. In recent years, however, confidence and complacency have been shaken by the Viet Nam War, explosive social and racial tensions and the youth revolt. All these have bred a deep unease and an anti-Establishment mood in which the nation...
Nader has busily progressed from attacking defective autos (millions of which have been recalled as a direct result of his activities) to denouncing the filth in meat-packing plants, which was still sickeningly pervasive 60 years after Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Nader's list of targets expands steadily: harmful food additives, explosion-prone natural-gas pipelines, radiation emissions from color television sets, unwholesome poultry, polluted water and air, bureaucratic sloth, corporate oligopoly, laborunion corruption, Union Carbide, the Du Fonts of Delaware, California land use, the Bureau of Reclamation. Next, Nader plans to zero in on the lassitude...