Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer lull in campus disturbances may be the chief reason why new "anti-riot" bills have not been very successful in Congress. As a staff member of the American Council on Education, the association of 1200 colleges which has led the fight against the bills, put it yesterday...
Richmond might as well be Indian-apolis or Des Moines. Of course the old monuments are still around-Robert E. Lee's home and Thomas Jefferson's graceful state capitol-but they have no effect on the modern city. The city appears as all-American as any medium-sized integrated city in the nation. The whites are moving to suburbia-toward Chesterfield and Ashland in the north and west-while the blacks are coming into the city seeking work from the nearby Southside. The lower middle-class whites resent the blacks, but can do little about it except vote...
...make the cost of marijuana prohibitive to American students by reducing the amount of marijuana here...
...button was white with "Trout Fishing in America, Inc." in green Roman capitals, centered, in four lines. Someone had tossed me the button during an interview. I had expected to see the Great American Wilderness and two rainbow trout in a frying pan. Instead the button was very straightforward. And it was tossed by a girl with long black hair, a purple sweater, and no brassiere. I had put it on without thinking...
Well, this contestant's game consists of a lot of adaptation and no security, a lot of the so-called American Dream and no life. It is somehow very funny, as the contestant scurries from square to square, from the New Left to the fraternity house, from a shrink to an understanding Jewish girl who tells him to read The Prophet "without intellectualizing." All this is also, as you might guess, pretty...