Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrating minority was not to assert their own will over the majority's opinion, but rather to change the majority's "consciousness" so they would agree with the minority's view. The demonstrators' conception of the university is similar to their radical critique of American society: they claim that both are directed in the interests of a powerful economic-political coalition. Through increasingly subtle methods of acculturation, the powerful interest group has asserted its own will on the majority. The majority have been manipulated to misconstrue their own interest as coincident with the interest of the powerful interest group that...
...before the violence. The main obstacle to reconciliation in the final days before the violence was the demonstrators' insistence on total amnesty. According to the Times, they even refused the administration's offer to let them off with "just a warning." From the viewpoint of the Majority Coalition, whose claim to speak for most Columbia students could not be disputed, the rebels' position seemed totally unjustifiable. It was the old story of a minority trying to impose its will on the majority, bringing memories of the Dow Demonstrations at Harvard. In light of the subsequent support the demonstrators won from...
...except for the continuing murderous antiaircraft fire, which continued to claim U.S. helicopters, A Shau proved to be lightly defended on the ground. The men of North Viet Nam's 559th Supply and Transportation Regiment did not put up much of a fight, retreating into the hills. Steady allied advance over the valley floor became a treasure hunt for the enormous caches of hardware that the Communists had to leave behind when they fled. It included Soviet tanks, trucks and bulldozers, vast quantities of rockets, mortars, artillery, small arms, flamethrowers, gas masks-and enough electronic equipment and tapes...
State of Emergency. The Progressive Laborites, however, claim that progress has not come fast enough. They charge that the whites get the best jobs in government and that there is still de facto social segregation, want to limit the number of white immigrant workers from Britain. "It is going to really get hot this summer," Parliamentary Candidate Austin Thomas warned a rally in Hamilton two weeks ago, "and it is going to be P.L.P. heat." A few hours later, a band of teen-age Negro hoodlums began throwing bottles and rocks at some police on Front Street. When more police...
...Lytton Strachey, English Biographer Michael Holroyd argues that the author of Eminent Victorians belongs in the forefront of the Bloomsberries, and then substantiates the claim through 1,229 improbably fascinating pages. Strachey's is one of the legitimately original voices of the era, and it has suffered from a conspiracy of ear plugging. Though his work has always been read, especially in the U.S., his reputation after his death in 1932 was increasingly demeaned by historians, who dismissed his readability as shallowness, his hyperbole as untruthfulness, and his point of view as malicious bias. In Eminent Victorians, Strachey provided...