Word: within
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy left, and Earl Long, 63, stood alone in a simple white room whose window was guarded with heavy wire mesh. Outside, the corridor was kept locked at both ends, and close by, within a moment's call, were two male nurses. Earl Long, serving for the third time (1939-40, 1948-52, 1956-60) as one of the most powerful and certainly one of the most controversial Governors of any U.S. state, drifted aimlessly around, strolled up and down the corridor, babbling endlessly to himself. And back in Louisiana, thousands of men and women, those who had voted...
...Reactionary" proposals, on the other hand, find favor only within a small clique at the College: only a twelfth back either repeal of antitrust legislation, or "marked reductions" in our Mutual Security program. This is the Fortnightly crowd--laughed at when they are not ignored...
...Within the College, as elsewhere, Federal aid is rapidly gaining the status of a magic word. Surrounded by a climate of "liberalism," most Harvard undergraduates seem ready to accept increased Federal activity in almost any area of national life--from schoolrooms to hospitals, from housing developments to theatres, and from farms to factories...
...imply that all Harvard students are brainwashed by Economics 1. But the selectiveness of reading lists and lectures often allows an unhealthy "argument-by-ommisson to replace a complete presentation of all "sides" of a question. Certainly this academic influence has helped produce a curious political spectrum within the College...
Faced with these compound difficulties, Harvard's political clubs offer a variety of programs--education in political technique, research on a prominant issue, an attempt to gain "influence within the body politic," and group discussion of a mutual political stand. But at least four-fifths of the College, ignoring these programs, stays away from the network of political clubs. Of the remaining one-fifth who belong, only a minority are active...