Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GROUPS do not achieve power merely by resolving to achieve power, but do so through the cumulative exercise of their influence on substantive issues. In most cases, students who accomplish reforms are those who articulate and organize such influence rather than those who plead for an expansion of student jurisdiction into areas several times removed from their immediate concerns. This is profoundly true at Harvard, which some-what paradoxically gives its students more freedom and less participation on policy-making committees than would be their lot at most public institutions. Harvard's governmental structure makes it pointless for students...
...better deal. His offer of an unconditional, if partial, bombing pause, backed up by his renunciation of a second term, was an astonishingly risky move for a notoriously cautious operator. Having gambled so much, the President was not interested in showcase talks that would impress the world but accomplish little. Consequently, he considered it important not merely that the talks should get started, but also that they should get started in the proper way, without allowing the U.S. to labor under the considerable disadvantage of negotiating in an unfriendly climate...
...significant facet of the phenomenon is that more students are moving away from alienation and toward highly political activism. While the hippie movement is waning, student power has shifted from passive protest to specific action aimed at accomplishing practical goals. Some youngsters who had despaired of the whole political system, and doubted that they could ever accomplish real change by working inside it, were given a new sense of hope and power by the crusade for Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire. Following a romantic cause to a remote state, a few thousand students used old-fashioned ward politics to help...
Joseph Seamans is a remarkable photographer, whose exhibit photos accomplish something that most photographers, including the best, are rarely able to do with their cameras. His photographs describe the relationship of the space around an object to that central object and all the other objects in the picture. In one picture of a girl looking a her hand, the walls on both sides of the room and the table at the bottom of the frame form a Renaissance perspective leaving the girl in a clearly defined central position with her hand sillouetted against the window. His technique isn't heavy...
...story of dramatic changes in Czechoslovakia [April 5] is fascinating. The ice of 20 years of totalitarian dictatorship has started to melt. It's remarkable that a nation that was betrayed by the West is able to accomplish the liberalization, with re-establishment of some of the basic freedoms, without outside help or interference. The question arises: Is it worth it or justified to fight Communism with precious American blood in the jungles of Southeast Asia when the same system seems gradually disintegrating from the inside in Central Europe...