Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither the list of demands nor the decision to wait until December to act was supported by a faction within Afro called Black Students for Action. At an SDS meeting last night the minority group announced plans for an obstructive sit-in in support of their own list of demands today in Wiggins' office...
Finally, I believe that morale among the workers in Radcliffe kitchens is high, that individuals feel free to bring problems to the kitchen administration, and that, although they enjoy knowing students and respect the job students do in the kitchens, the regular staff resents having students act as their self- appointed representatives...
Exactly what is happening on Brattle Street are three one-act plays, all written by young Americans and all deeply rooted in the nightmarish decade that is now grinding to a halt. A decade of snipings and war, assassinations and drugs, Tiny Tim and Aretha Franklin- Morning, Noon and Night is not so much about these things as of them. And such is the stuff we are made of- we and night mares...
...NIGHT, the final play of the trilogy, is in every way the third act of the evening. It is an answer to the chaotic world depicted in the first two plays, a goodbye-to-all-that farewell to the sixties. It is both devastating and exhilirating, and even bigger mind-blow than Morning or Noon...
...tremendous value inherent in the idealism of today's young and give them credit for this. As always, youth serves an important function when it startles us out of complacency and stirs us to view the world from their new perspective out of which we may choose to act toward a healthy change...