Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Harvard students stormed University Hall, boycotted classes and demanded campus reforms in the spring of 1969, they weren't in the vanguard of the student protest movement...
...which made the Nazi rise to power possible. I regretfully came to realize that SDS had hit upon a tactic which was unbeatable, even at Harvard... The SDS had suceeded in winning at Harvard, in having themselves accepted by all too many of the student body as our moral vanguard...
Always a numbers man, Rose was at the vanguard of baseball's economic revolt. His original ambition, "to be the first $100,000 singles hitter," sounds quaint now. In the late 1970s he made an auction out of the new free- agent system, and for $3.2 million over four years stopped off in Philadelphia to show the Phillies...
Gathering Clouds, by Alexandru Tatos, uses flashbacks to reveal a plot involving a World War I lieutenant, whose combat experience and disfigurement cause his descent into depravity and madness. Tatos is on the vanguard of Romanian cinema and his photography and plot manipulation reveal the forefront of Romanian New Wave film...
From the time Professor of Law Gary R. Bellow started the Harvard Clinical Studies program in the 1970s, legal scholars have recognized it as at the vanguard of the development of practical legal education. The Harvard AIDS Law Clinic is a clear example of the Law School's adaptability to the community's changing legal needs...