Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject matter of the film became apparent, however, lighted cigarettes thrown from the balcony added to the restlessness in the theatre fostered by the violence on screen. Finally, a group which had been drenched with water from the balcony started the call for "lights." Most just sat and blinked at each other, questioning and anxious, when the lights went on. Some, hot and troubled, were calling for the film to go on, while others already were slipping out into the night. Soon we all scattered, disheartened, when the film was called...
This center would be, it is assumed, independent of the University, both in location and financing. But obviously students cannot, by themselves, develop or maintain such a center. Although the students have indicated that they have some sources of support on which they can and will call directly, it is recommended that the Dean urge all appropriate elements of the University to use their good offices in securing and financing a building and providing continuing support to the activities of such a social and cultural center...
...Gandhi's phrase." The first sit-ins took place in Chicago, not a friendly town for demonstrators. "In the early 'forties, public accommodations was not just a Mississippi or Alabama problem--it was a national problem. In Chicago we had to force our way into restaurants. The owners might call in hoods to take care of us, or the police would arrive and use clubs...
...murder--all this possibly the heyday of CORE, nonviolence, and James Farmer. In those simpler days, before urban riots and black power, the Northern whites were all liberals and the Southern whites were all sheriffs. "One Mississippi officer I met," he recalls, "just couldn't bring himself to call me Mister Farmer. He tried, but he just couldn't. All that he could come out with was Mmmmm Farmer, Mmmmm Farmer...
...consider alternative ways in which ROTC can remain in the Harvard community, including operating as an extracurricular activity or as an activity that designates regular college (i.e., academic department) courses to count toward the military commission as well as the baccalaureate degree. This is not a call for or for fact-finding; it is not a delaying motion; it is a call for action...