Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merchants realize that the floating variety show is the best way to maintain the integrity of the land. The fashionable theorists, particularly McLuhan, speak of the unprecedented-rate-of-apocalyptic-change. Yet after the Beatles, Che Guevara, the Civil Rights Act, and even the moon landing, social conscience may be developed so far beyond the power of people to change anything that the fiery political frustration is being mistaken for the reform. And television may be the cardinal source of this paradoxical feeling of unprecedented turmoil throughout an essentially sullen and unmoving nation. Arlen's most moving pages...
...Generally I am deeply opposed to political motions, but Vietnam has had a more divisive effect on American life than anything since the Civil War," Edsall stated. "The circumstances are so extraordinary that I feel justified in taking this once-in-a-lifetime step...
Among the Law School organizations endorsing the poll are the Legal Aid Bureau, the Community Legal Assistance Office, the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Law School Record, and the Student Bar Association...
...such public demonstrations have been banned by the Belfast government due to Northern ireland's recent religious clashes. Yesterday's parade was to mark the anniversary of the Roman Catholic civil rights demonstration in Londonderry last October which set off a wave of violence across the country...
...illustrate some aspect of what I am trying to say by discussing our attitude toward drugs. It seems to me that in vigorously condemning in public statements those who use drugs civil authorities and university officials have poisoned the air too much. I do not question at all the wisdom of condemning the use of drugs in private session with a student, or in group discussion, but it is essential that the cluster of ideas at Harvard about drugs contain the idea that when any student needs care and help he may receive it here without fearing that a Dean...