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...upon every one to be self reliant to contribute his own practical experience toward problem solving and decision making to found theory upon practice, and to achieve what would normally be considered impossible. He alerted the people to the dangers of a growing bureaucracy. His famous big-character poster. "Bombard the Head Quarteriers," urged the youth to bombard with their criticisms even "the top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road." This meant, first of all, Liu Shao...
...hopes for some mass tribal evolution. And he misread even the processes by which an audience experiences television in order to buttress his argument. Do people care all that deeply about what they see on the tube? If they do aren't they first primed by commercial manipulators who bombard them with verbal publicity? And even if they participate en masse in the creation of a body of cliches, might that not be the most telling criticism of the culture...
...debate is rapidly being resolved. When Libby first proposed carbon 14 dating in 1950, he assumed that the total world supply of the isotope was about the same as it had been in the past. Reason: carbon 14 is being produced continuously in the atmosphere as cosmic rays bombard the earth from deep space and leave a trail of atomic debris. But as the number of puzzling carbon 14 dates increased, scientists at the universities of Arizona, Pennsylvania and California began testing Libby's assumption by turning to some of the oldest living things on earth-California...
...branded as a separate class, the capitalist class, all those of us who support freedom (our version) must defend ourselves when our freedoms are attacked. Since our class is the class in power in America, it doesn't make sense for these "revolutionaries" to bombard us with paper balls and marshmallows-they should have used REAL instruments of revolutionary violence. After all, since we would have responded repressively to defend our class status, it seems stupid to incite our violent power with harmless paper balls, marshmallows and shouts...
...people had voted two days before Pusey's statement to put the University on strike, joining over 300 other schools around the country. The Faculty voted optional pass-fail and credit grades on courses to free students for political work. Then both students and Faculty went to Washington to bombard their Congressmen with pleas to end the war. Pusey had to wait for an invitation from Nixon to go to the capital, but when it came he too went to "present explicitly our assessment of the desires, frustrations, and anger among students and Faculty across the nation-reactions that result...