Word: vanguarde
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...speculative recent projects--I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader and Memories of Underdevelopment--both filled up enough to be held over for weeks. "I.F. Stone wouldn't have made it a year ago," he says. But Jackson probably isn't giving the public enough credit. Cambridge has been in the vanguard of the movie revival business since the early '50s, and while interest may have decreased at times, the audiences has always survived...
...printers' union, the first in Harvard history to go on strike seven years ago, and its student supporters probably find their common cause makes the vanguard a less lonely place...
...post-revolutionary life as well as tenure. Despite their lack of spine, or rather because of it, like jellyfish, they have declined to be beaten into place in the grim division of labor that has descended on us. They are the laggard remnants of an unruly "new working class" vanguard which has long since marched stiffly and sullenly to take up positions in the new corporate order. As such they are admirable, in a sense, but not enviable. For if the prevailing militant regime of purposive competition seems a bit unstable, a bit uncomfortably hypocritical--a bunch of closet Marxists...
...they say, has always been at the fore in leading this country's universities through political and social change. If the University's new independent investment unit is successful in forging an informal partnership among the firms managing Harvard's endowment, Harvard soon may also find itself at the vanguard of a new trend in money management...
...employees of the University Printing Office seem to be historically at the vanguard of Harvard's not-so-militant labor movement. The printers, who are members of the Graphic Arts International Union, were the first group of Harvard employees ever to walk out when they went on strike seven years...