Word: vanguardism
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...colleagues on the faculty who also experienced the leftward drift of the late '60s, although he alone had tenure. In the year 1969-1970, five other young professors gave the Economics Department a solid core of radical though. It appeared, very briefly, as if Harvard might become the vanguard in the emerging field of radical economics...
...Ebenezer Baptist Church, and organized around the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Who organized the Montgomery bus boycott? Ministers. What did they sing at Selma? Spirituals and hymns. And there is an exception in the world--Latin America, where the Catholic Church has emerged as part of the vanguard movement for freedom. In the name of Jesus, priests and bishops have finally begun to withdraw their support from the murderous re-games of that region, spawning a theology of liberation. At Harvard, the fledgling Christian left is best represented by the William J. Seymour Society, a group composed mostly of Black...
Most of what Frith has to say of interest is lost in pointless self-indulgence. Witness this description of the groups of the "punk vanguard...
Populist assumptions of transparency, Subcultural identity? Does Frith mean to say that the punks (The "punk vanguard," that is) played loud, nasty music? If not, exactly what does he mean...
...Morton Grove goes, so goes Illinois? Not exactly. Even as the village was joining the U.S. gun control vanguard, the state legislature enacted a law permitting private ownership of machine guns. Governor James Thompson signed the bill, but soon realized it was "an error," and won an amendment again outlawing machine guns. That farcical episode in the state capitol will surely be eclipsed by the enduring legislative example set in Morton Grove's village meeting room. In fact, Morton Grove's stand on handguns may become legend: ABC has paid the town $17,000 for the option...