Word: aikman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes there is a difficult third role to fulfill: that of citizen. One night recently David Aikman, TIME'S stringer at the University of Washington, discovered Thompson Hall, where his own office is located, in flames. He had little hesitation in helping to chase down a suspected arsonist. "No man tries to burn down a building as a protest unless he is in the last stages of revolt against his own condition," says Aikman. "For me, the inescapable melancholy of the incident was twofold: that any student could be so distressed by the law of the land...