Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was plenty of talking when the tribes gathered in Washington again, but unlike Finley, who was booed off the podium, most of the people there thought it was important. It's gotten to be kind of a regular thing: every six months or so, a bunch of anti-war types get together to plan the spring offensive against the war, or the fall offensive against the war. They come and talk about the new horrors of the war, and renew acquaintances with other activists they haven't seen since the last conference. And then they go home to mobilize...
...finally has for Buechner. Lion Country , his latest novel, is the most entertaining piece of fiction published in this country since Updike's Bech: A Book . Buechner has given up his sententious themes, and toned down his murky style a bit, to produce a highly amusing novel about a bunch of remarkably strange people...
...House Dining Hall a bearded student is telling three of his cleaner cut friends that "the goddamn university should quit giving money to stupid things like housing in Riverside. After all," he says, eyes popping out behind a pair of $40 oval tortoise-shell glasses, "What right does that bunch of freeloaders have to take money away from important scholarship going on here?" At the same table, perhaps two chairs down, sits a blonde-haired girl whose freshly laundered Can't Bust 'Em coveralls just don't seem to live with her golden bangles and black Guccis. She listens attentively...
...Memorial Drive. Boylston Street, and Western Ave. -was once a thriving community where black and white people lived together in relative harmony. As one old resident put it. "Back about fifteen years ago, the whole community consisted of three and four generation families; now it's nothing but a bunch of rich students living there." What has happened over the years has been a clear reflection of the attitude of the University as a whole (students and administration alike, though the point should be made that the administration, in this case, is in a unique position to mold student involvement...
...type of guilt-by-association-true or not-is completely inappropriate in the case of poor, struggling countries under military siege, and does not even concur with Lenin's writings. "What it amounts to," said Ed Goldman, a Columbia student who quit PL late last year, "is that a bunch of white middle-class students are saying that a national liberation organization that has liberated four-fifths of Vietnam is selling...