Word: againstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At Harvard on Registration Day for Freshmen, we began queueing up very early in front of Memorial Hall. I was bout a third of the way down the line. In the front was a Negro fellow with wonderful yellow sunglasses, except that I did not think they were wonderful then...
We were all for the war then, except Bruce, who was on the executive committee of SDS, then quit at the end of year with no explanation (this was to be the first of many events with no explanation, a situation I managed to adjust to). Bruce argued against the...
Last year, we felt powerful, that we could do anything. We marched on the Pentagon in October, and I remember the sky sulphurous with the smell of teargas and smoke in the air. In March the President was deposed and the war was over (something about no bombing of North...
Of course, we were playing with symbols of revolution, and of course this was no the real thing. But what do you expect from upper-middle-class-socio-economic kids. Still, Henry Kissinger said that revolutions succeed when the people who are being revolted against do not take the revolutionaries...
Now Kahn is--like most sensible Americans--against war. He may even agree with the God-is-dead proponents. But Shakespeare and the sixteenth-century Elizabethans believed in war, just as had Henry V and his subjects in the early fifteenth century. The word "warlike" in Henry V is an...