Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...procedures of the party have changed profoundly as well: the 1972 "McGovern reforms" designed to open the party to more direct democratic participation have ended by destroying the party's formal structure. The McGovernites were, many of them, college-educated, upper-middle-class, amateur political activists, schooled in Viet Nam and civil rights protest, who regarded the old party boss structures as morally corrupt. The Watergate era, which made all party politicians vaguely suspect, led many candidates (including Jimmy Carter) to minimize their party affiliations, virtually to deny them. And television allowed candidates to project themselves directly upon...
...Every gain Third World students have made here has come about because of direct political pressure," Georgia Hill '81, a member of the student organization trying to establish a Third World center on campus, told an open forum on the center last night...
...good to lobby someone who keeps quoting from the Bible, someone who has no money to build a decent prison, someone who points to unreclaimed strip mines and calls them "unavoidable consequences of progress." They'll have to follow an impulse that has always existed within the American Left--direct community efforts to create non-governmental institutions. There will be a spate of new schools and neighborhood patrols, and the libertarian movement, on the other side, will continue to pick up steam, as people realize that when government won't solve problems for everybody at once, small-scale community solutions...
...MBTA source said yesterday the T's Advisory Board had pressured the T to follow the new law. Since the law passed two years ago, the union received an arbitration award because the arbiter found direct conflict between the state law and the parties' adopted bargaining procedure...
After two William and Mary possessions failed to mount a threat, the Crimson offense took over again at the Harvard 40 with 41 seconds to go in the first half. Buckley proceeded to direct one of the gridders' more impressive drives of the season, taking the Crimson 61 yards in five plays and 30 seconds...