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...example, editorialized: "At present a lot of Congressmen vote funds for the committee lest they be called unpatriotic. Drop the scare word and the spell breaks." But opponents of the bill feared that a new name would make HUAC more respectable. As the real aims of the bill became clearer, they fought to save the scare word...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: By Any Other Name | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

...Nina Simone is saying 'em louder and clearer than ever before. There was a time when her stance was an indifferent slump, her expression unsmiling, her attitude hostile. At best, she was called temperamental, at worst arrogant. She went through one distraught manager after another. But since her 1961 marriage to Andrew Stroud, who quit the New York City police force to become her manager, she has calmed down-and even found a measure of tranquility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: More than an Entertainer | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Hoping to give investors a clearer view of conglomerates, the Securities and Exchange Commission is about to issue a tough new regulation requiring all multi-industry companies to disclose how each segment of their business is faring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ASSAULT ON THE CONGLOMERATES | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...Dean Ford really intends to draw the line against such liberals, my task as a radical will be clearer; the radical analysis of the university in terms of power and interest groups will then be fully true. Dean Ford's loyalty to the existing procedures of the Harvard community would, in that case, be a loyalty not to the university community as such, but merely a private loyalty to his own privileged conception of the university, supported not by reason but by power. His condition for allowing us to remain in the university would then be that radicals and dissident...

Author: By Timothy D. Gould, | Title: An Open Letter to Liberals at Harvard From An Unrestful Radical | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

...that is not quite William Congreve's classic line of the 1690s. It is the Fugs of the 1960s, in their song When the Mode of the Music Changes. And it sounds a theme that is growing louder, if not clearer, throughout contemporary rock: change, wildness, rebellion against civil authority. Social and political revolution, that catchword of radical left rhetoric, is becoming a fashionable topic for more and more rock groups-at least as far as their lyrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: The Revolutionary Hype | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

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