Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Brewster earned high marks for transforming Yale from an elitist institution for the conventional education of affluent prep school graduates into an innovative coeducational campus, where more than 50% of the students get financial aid-and he gets credit for doing it without lowering graduation standards in the process. Brewster has also long held views that Agnew could applaud, such as his concern that "physical disruption and intimidation from the New Left" pose a "frontal challenge" to universities, and that "reason must be honored above the clash of crude and noisy enthusiasms and antipathies." He has argued that "the teacher...
...proletarians, and their knowledge of alienation far exceeds our own. Kolakowski's remark about "the 'objective' wealth of reality" appears ironic, a mere aphorism, to poets whose reality is as tragic as his has been. Nothing is perceived as whole; in a metonymous gesture, hands come to represent a process of history...
...urge that university, college and high school students and faculty everywhere work in effective ways to make constructive changes in the quality of our national life, public policies and political institutions. We are confident they can do this best by laboring realistically together to make the political process more responsive and not by abetting those who seek to destroy...
Unfortunately, the federal government is sanctioning more racism today than five or ten years ago. You see Nixon trying to kill the voting rights act of '65, the Moynihan letter, trying to curb the beneficial work foundations have done among poor people, trying to reverse the very slow process of desegregation ordered by the Supreme Court in 1954. This is giving rise to overt acts of racism, like attacking school buses...
Secondly, I would do all I could to give people a stake in the system. I would involve black people in the decision-making process at all levels...