Word: vigilantism
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Early in his career George Meany had recognized the Communists and Fascists for what they were. While he was still the Plumbers' business agent, he had reprimanded and fined a Communist agitator in his union local. In 1939, a few days after war broke out in Europe, Meany took...
Despite, or because of, this cautious arrangement, the two religious groups are vigilant rivals. At dawn on Sundays, the bells of Beirut's churches clang so loudly that good Moslems groan and cover their heads. At dawn on other mornings, the muezzins chant their calls to prayer over loudspeaker...
THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, by Evan Hunter (309 pp.; Simon & Schusfer; $3.50). Everybody talks about juvenile delinquency, but Evan Hunter, who used to teach at a New York City vocational high school, has done something about it. He has written a nightmarish but authentic first novel about the problem that should...
Since that time, Overseers are still suspicious and some are still vigilant. But the Overseers, unlike the Corporation, have not merely lent their authority; the Board's powers have slipped away over the years until it is now a channel through which the Corporation and Administration can estimate the alumni...
John H. Limpert '55, president of the Lampoon, said last night that vandals keep turning the bird toward Mt. Auburn St. But he plans to keep men vigilant to see that whenever possible the bird faces the CRIMSON offices. "We don't know just where we'd have been without...