Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other day somebody?oh, yes, it was that other idiot, Agnew?said that what's good for America is good for the worker. Since 95% of all Americans are workers, we take the position that what's good for the worker is good for America." Says Earl Shaw, a Berkeley typesetter: "Meany is so far removed from the workingman. Organized labor leaders are too much the Establishment. They are concerned with being friends of the President...
...FROM Berkeley to Bedford-Stuyvesant, scrawls of aerosol paint on ghetto walls demand: FREE ANGELA DAVIS. FREE THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. The phrase "political prisoner" is so laminated into the radical mind that, like "genocide" or "fascist pig," it has become part of an unconscious ritual. George Jackson's death last week at San Quentin raised some fundamental and difficult questions about the meaning of the term and to whom it applies...
...vans are everywhere: parked near the beach at Cape Cod, on Manhattan's West Side, on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, or cruising the roads, pikes and throughways in between. Few of them are new and shiny, and no one bothers much about paint or chrome. The kids actually prefer them to have modest exteriors; a flashy-looking van is always more attractive to thieves. To the owner what is important is what is inside...
...sources of that anonymous stuff called "modernism," it was natural that Klinger should be exhumed. This job, and more, has been done by an elegantly compact show of Klinger graphics assembled by Jan von Adlmann for the Wichita Art Museum, where it opened this month before traveling to Berkeley and Harvard...
...problems of blacks to their matriarchal families; the 1966 study by sociologist James Coleman that seemed to eliminate poor schools as a cause of failures, leading educators to indict black home life instead; and the controversial 1969 paper in which Psychologist Arthur Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley suggested that there might be an innate intellectual inferiority in the Negro...