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Ultimately, Waspism may be more a state of mind, a pattern of behavior, than a rigid ethnic type. Some non-Wasps display all the characteristics normally associated with the most purebred Wasps. Consciously or not, they are Waspirants. Many people were surprised to learn that Edmund Muskie, who talked and looked like a Down East Yankee, was actually of Polish descent. Edward Brooke, who was successfully promoted for the U.S. Senate by civic-spirited Wasps, has all the attributes of a well-bred Wasp, as does Whitney Young Jr. One doesn't have to be white, Anglo-Saxon...
...this phrase, but the most likely candidates are the members of Progressive Labor. Dean Ford's phrase, however, is worse than vague. For the term suggests a false analogy to Stalinist or Trotskyite (which Ford tries to disavow, though not explicitly). "Maoist" suggests someone under the domination of a rigid, foreign (un-American?) ideology. To call members of Progressive Labor Maoists, in ignorance of the content of their programs, is meaningless: worse, it is dangerously close to red-baiting...
...double faculty salaries. Full professors now earn up to $14,000, which is in line with faculty salaries at most private white colleges. Following his conviction that Negro applicants who score low on white-oriented aptitude tests are not necessarily unfit for college, he has relaxed entrance requirements, abandoned rigid grading and allowed students to proceed at their own pace, graduating in anywhere from three to six years. When critics suggest that he is indulging in "bargain basement" education, Cheek retorts: "We had not a thing in the world to lose. We weren't going anywhere at the time...
...constitution that was overwhelmingly ratified last September. Papadopoulos appointed a commission of jurists and civil servants to draw up the 25 or so laws that are needed to implement the precepts of the constitution. In a nationwide radio address, Papadopoulos promised to ease the country's rigid revolutionary rule and to introduce extensive social re forms. The thrust of his actions in dicated that the initial military phase of the revolution had ended and that Phase 2, which would be political in nature, had now begun...
...competing power blocs--an analysis that under the best circumstances need be only partially true, of this university--can be made true, entirely true, horribly true. Distrust and fear will come to transfigure every interchange between student and faculty. All that is needed is an administration that is too rigid, and too severe, or a student response that is too doctrinaire, too inflexible...