Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already involved in the Black Struggle.... I was a socialist, but with a syndicalist or anarchist orientation." He "polemicized a bit" against the club system. "It was a training ground for the Southern aristocracy...stabbing one's friends in the back. I thought they were all so lifeless, so...bland, and so one dimensional...
...issue and that the students and their faculty would end up more as antagonists than as pupils and teachers in the finest sense of both of those words. After all the meetings and all the behind-the-scenes phone calls, out of such violently opposing opinions, came a bland compromise: the Administrative Board proposed, and the faculty ratified, the decision to put on a virtually meaningless probation any student whose bursar's card had been turned...
...Bland Complacency...
Dublin also criticizes Ec 1 for the "bland complacency" of the reading list. Included on his and Ec teaching fellow John Curtis' seminars' reading list are: Gabriel Kolko's Wealth and Power in America, Philip Stern's The Great Treasury Raid and articles from Dissent and The Great Society Reader...
There was this marvelous juxtaposition. The Armed Forces Vietnam Network, which has a news broadcast for five minutes every hour on the hour, would come on first with this bland statement by General Westmoreland about the victory we are winning and how Saigon has now been completely retaken and that there are just pockets of resistance left. And that would be followed at the end of the news by an important anouncement to all American personnel: All American personnel are required to stay in their billets until further notice. There is a 24-hour curfew for all American personnel...