Word: co-opt
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...altogether fair shake. It was suggested to him that more spontaneous chats with journalists might make for a more sympathetic press. "I can't do that," Hart said. "I can't approach you people because then you'll think I'm pandering, trying to co-opt you." He seemed sincerely frustrated. "Sometimes I think I'm living in two different worlds-what I do and what I read I do." Why had the day's news reports, he asked, not mentioned the remarkable size of the crowd the day before in Harrisburg? How about...
Throughout his career, Italian culture buzzed with manifestoes, claims and counterclaims. Before World War I, the Futurists tried to marshal art into a relentless machine-age spectacle. In the '20s and '30s, Mussolini and his cultural gang strove to co-opt Italian modernism into Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...
...that shouldn't come as any surprise. Formed to co-opt student protest, the Faculty Council succeeded admirably, even increasing its authority after student concerns shifted from communal good to individual advancement. The danger for students is that someday, they may wake up to find all their power usurped. The greater danger, for administrators, is that they may arise to find a student body angered by forays like those of the Faculty Council--and prepared to re-enact the struggles of the late 1960s against forces that today seem eerily the same...
...since its creation both to indicate their disapproval of its procedures and to protest the blatantly political nature of the motives behind its creation. Administrators have tinkered with some details of CRR's workings in response to student pressure, but the group's essential purpose remains unchanged: to co-opt some students into sitting in judgement on their peers for their political actions. Reform from within cannot alter that, and reforms alone will not improve a group with such an abhorrent purpose. Abolition, not reform, is CRR's deserved fate...
...dancing to it; discos sprung up like weeds, the most exclusive of which, like New York's Studio 54, were able to turn away hundreds of potential customers, even at stiff entrance fees of $15-$20 a head. Here at last was an adolescent fad the older generation could co-opt and enjoy; by decade's end exclusive restaurants and private clubs had opened discos, and annual membership fees at some of the plusher, better-equipped ones started at several hundred dollars. Studio 54, and all it represented, was only the tip of a narcissistic iceberg that ranged the gamut...