Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for your superb Essay on the "everyday activist" [Oct. 18]. Finally, someone has pointed out that constructive dissent can and does exist, that for every militant demonstrator there is a "disrupter for good" who contributes far more to our society than do all the yippies from Berkeley to Columbia. Allow me to speak for the doers of my generation with these lines from the Beatles' latest release, Revolution...
...police department has been humanized; Gordon Thisner, a Berkeley criminologist, told the President's commission on violence last week that New York's force was the most sophisticated department in the country in its response to civil disorders and unrest. Most important of all is Lindsay's unique rapport with the Negroes and Puerto Ricans, a fragile yet invaluable link that the Mayor readily admits could vanish in a single night of riot and looting...
Thomas J. Kent Jr., a Berkeley planner, says that "the radical experiment that began in the U.S. 50 years ago in local self-government has run out in the biggest cities." No doubt with some exaggeration, he holds that all cities with populations of a million or more are "too large to be manageable as democratic self-governments." A somewhat similar theme was sounded by Leonardo...
...most recent of many wide-ranging college self-studies-others have been produced by Fordham, Berkeley, Bennington, Northwestern, Swarthmore and Columbia-the Oklahoma report was directed by the university's unacademic new president, J. Herbert Hollomon, 49. A metallurgical engineer and a former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce, Hollomon was given a year to learn his job before being formally inaugurated. To find what he ought to do, he enticed 572 people, including students, faculty, alumni, legislators and business and cultural leaders, to work on the report. The study touches on matters as mundane as how to collect student...
With these pressures and issues hanging in the balance, the Berkeley crisis now enters its second crucial week...