Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where are the Wests, the Thoreaus, the Gardners of today? Some claim that eccentricity is vanishing in America, Mrs. O'Hair notwithstanding. Appearance mav seem to belie this conclusion, since the age abounds with beards, long hair, acidheads and nude actresses. Skeptics argue, however, that all this is actually more conformity than eccentricity. As they see it, urbanization has freed Americans from many small-town strictures but has left millions of young people yearning for acceptance in new groups-the hippies, for example-that create their own standards. "Eccentricity," says New York Sociologist Werner Cahnman, "frequently becomes only...
...members of the student organizations are immensely concerned with the unrepresentative nature of University decision making. They claim that they intend to give the students a voice in the decisions that affect their life and work in the University. But I seriously question how the members of these organizations can claim to represent the students in their own committees, much less before the Faculty or the administration. . . . The sight of a prominent HUC member complaining that "there is no way to become a big man on campus" certainly makes one wonder how much his desires for student representation...
...respectability is still a value in our culture we have no right to claim a share of it if we consider such spectacles as proper and within the law," the judge stated...
ERNEST GRUENING was defeated for reelection to the Senate last year by a 38-year-old moderate who claimed to stand "more in the main-stream" of American opinion on Vietnam. The claim had at least the virtue of being true: at 82, Ernest Gruening has yet to join anyone's mainstream...
...first there were some misgivings about the girls. Miss Burke said that the maids used to claim the girls were sloppy. The men complained about "perfume wafting up the corridors...