Word: braved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promise of complete amnesty. While the small group which occupies five buildings at first spoke for the conscience of the majority of the Columbia community, now they are a minority, blocking the majority from going about its business as they lobby for their own interests. Having taken the brave plunge into civil disobedience, the demonstrators should not be dissipating the force of their action by refusing to face the possibility of some form of punishment...
...Glee Club's sound, when broken down by sections, is a bit uneven. In particular it lacks a bass section with the rich, grounded sound found, for instance, in Orthodox liturgical choirs. The shallowness of sound and the noticable failure at the "Many Brave Hearts are Asleep in the Deep" bottom of the range are most likely the direct consequences of youth and the luck of the draw, since the club depends on an uncertain pool of transient talent. As for baritones, director Elliot Forbes seems to have struck a rich vein since the section contains at least three...
...openers, Brown, Cornell and Barnard motioned to stay home altogether. They were the smart ones, for the schools that opted to brave Mother Nature got more than they bargained for. "We felt we had to come," said Princeton swim coach Janie Tyler. "It's just that once we did, we had to walk to the Hyatt from Central Square with our luggage because no taxis would pick...
...join hearts and hands-black and white, brown and yellow, adult and child, in the single cause of America." He demanded a "moratorium on the vocabulary of violence." On Viet Nam: "The struggle for peace is not for the weak, the cowardly or the timid. It is for the brave and courageous." On the Administration's critics: "Deception, doubt and despair-that is the litany of the men who sell America short." And: "Iam a partisan American...
...Among them: Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who, in a letter to the Washington Post on March 22, asked for a pullout: "Khe Sanh has lost whatever military significance it may have had. It is highly vulnerable. Airpower will not save it. Let us not sacrifice our brave men to the folly of generals and the obstinacy of Presidents...