Word: actions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters. As in an electricity blackout one waits for the light, so in Beckett's metaphysical and moral blackout one waits for new gods and values to replace the old. At times, Beckett seems almost complacent in his despair. Doing nothing is regarded as the higher wisdom and action as impatience, an attempt to induce the birth of some new vital myth that is as yet, in Matthew Arnold's words, "powerless to be born...
...time I finished trying to separate fact, innuendo, and fantasy, I decided it wasn't worth the effort. As with the November Action Committee tour of the Center, the questioner doesn't really want an answer...
About 50 members of SDS and the November Action Committee peacefully confronted Dean May in University Hall yesterday with a demand that Harvard stop alleged "political repression...
...protest centered around trespass action initiated by the University against John C. Berg, a graduate student severed for his participation in the occupation of University Hall last April: the arrest of six SDS members this month while posting antiwar notices; and the firing of several University employees, allegedly for political reasons...
...sure he's not in court now, where he spent the last six months?" a demonstrator shouted. Berg has charged that Watson initiated the trespass action against him, but Watson has declined to comment...