Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sincerity is tremendous. He shows his Maoist leanings symbolically: the tiny bourgeois Scotch terrior seen playing throughout the film is in the end dwarfed by the powerful German shepherds the Maoists use to break up a Socialist meeting. When we finally see Carlos, it takes no great subtlety to wonder who is leading who. The bourgeois takes inventory of his books, and The History of China is followed by The Hope of Italy...
...blacks have asked us to leave. I get up and leave. The column of evicted whites shuffles over to Low Library. A guy in front rams a wooden sign through the security office side doors and about 200 of us rush in. Another 150 hang around outside because the breaking glass was such a bad sound. They become the first "sundial people." Inside we rush up to Kirk's office and someone breaks the lock. I am not at all enthusiastic about this and suggest that perhaps we ought to break up all the Ming Dynasty art that...
...escape through the windows and then go organize a strike. The feeling is that if we get busted, then there will be something to organize a strike about. The man chairing the discussion is standing on a small wooden table and I am very concerned lest he break it. We collect water in wastebaskets in case of tear gas. Some of it gets spilled and I spend my time trying to wipe it up. I don't want to leave somebody else's office all messy...
...took three months and the death of Martin Luther King to push them through. They came finally with a faculty vote on April 10. In important ways, the spate of proposals constituted a real break-through in the School's urban posture. Voting to recruit minority group students, the faculty struck down the School's traditional definition of competence, admitting for the first time that race and ghetto experience are important. "The way we've been recruiting minority group students," Sizer said right after the April 10 meeting, "was the wrong...
...double standard, combined with inflexible stands on the issues, could doom the peace talks to break-down or stalemate. If the agreement on Paris was a triumph for U.S. diplomacy, it could also be a prelude to disastrous--and avoidable--diplomatic failure...