Word: vanguard
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...this what has become of my class, I wondered? We had formed the vanguard of the Harvard strike of '69, had rallied around the war and racism, issues that are still far from dead, Where were all the revolutionaries...
...like all of Lester's work, it has a disciplined rambunctiousness and a feeling of fresh air. If Lester had been more comprehending of his actors' talents and given them the showcase they needed, instead of competing with them for control of the movie this might have been the vanguard of a new, reasonable way of bringing musicals and actors to the screen. Instead if is restrained in a self-imposing manner by Lester who didn't understand that he was working with geniuses much more important than himself...
...American society allow the academic elite its measure of independence because scholars have generally aligned with the political and economic elite. Lipset himself points out that universities serve "the bodies politic" by providing them with "new basic discoveries that help keep their national economic and military collectives in the vanguard." Lipset also argues that the superior academic institutions have taken a hand in the control of society in another way: by creating a corps of elite personnel to serve at the top of society, "the culture producing centers have been gaining in their ability to exercise great influence over...
...learned commentary on "sacred" texts, in this case those of the giants of the Jewish Diaspora. As with a midrash, the argument unfolds from a single overriding principle: in this case the bold if cranky notion that from Marx to Freud to Abbie Hoffman, the Jewish intellectual vanguard has been obsessed by embarrassment at its own Jewishness...
University Hall, at the time, seemed to offer (along with the strife) a good deal of promise and initiative. Chief issues, aside from the pervasive demonstration issues, were merger and educational reform, and U-Hall was in the proper vanguard. Now, by contrast, students seem routinely treated as distant and foreign by an administration which seems more concerned with cost and efficiency than anything else...