Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glue." Strike leaders estimate that a third of the grape harvest will rot on the vines, and Harry Bridges' strike-sympathizing longshoremen have caused tons of grapes to rot on the docks by refusing to have anything to do with them. Inevitably, the strike has attracted some Berkeley students-coeds in college sweaters and wool stockings, boys in Zapata-style mustaches. "Do you find this a meaningful experience?" they ask one another...
...most terrifying of these threats was the Watts rebellion and the most articulate was the Berkeley riots. In articles, interviews, and forums, many Berkeley rebels made it clear that their enemy was as much a somewhat inaccurately described middle-class way of life as it was the university itself. Other well-publicized attacks on the middle-class life-style come from the Hell's Angels, the Surfer cults, and Kustom Kar builders...
...instilled in California's casual bigots. But they are probably just beginning to learn how to play upon the battles between the generations that are behind the other threats to the way of life of middle-class Californians. Reagan has said that he will have something to say about Berkeley in his campaign next year, but the slick political management firm he hired has probably not quite decided what it is yet. All anyone can be sure of is that in a conflict between threatened, defensive parents and their rebellious offspring, the parents can outvote the offspring any time...
...Harvard history--which the bipartite constitution outlined for it. That document left to the HUC all the relatively boring and trivial issues of administration which had drawn its predecessor into dark lecture rooms and damp motorcycle lots. The HUC was to concern itself solely with academic policy. The Berkeley riots, which occured shortly before the new government began, highlighted the growing student interest--around the country--in educational policy. The HPC seemed a promising vehicle for converting interest into constructive reform...
...measure Kennedy's fallible successors. One of the most valuable things Schlesinger does is to remind his readers of the antipathy towards Kennedy that grew up in the year before his death. "He used to say that Adlai Stevenson could still beat him in Madison, Wisconsin, or in Berkeley, California--perhaps even in Cambridge, Massachusetts...