Word: cliquishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rock 'n' roll is the only high-quality mass art form we have today and it would be a ghastly mistake to allow it to degenerate into the middle-class art form that classical music is, or into the cliquish limited-audience music that modern jazz became. It is disturbing to see many of the best musicians in America trying to remold rock in an alien jazz and classical music inspired cast...
...gradual series of things. But for many, it hasn't come yet. They still sit back, worry about their grades, talk about how bad the system is and how against the war they are. Many of them belong to SDS and are the ones who help give SDS the cliquish and bombastic air that turns many Harvard students away. As with their radicalism, they are in SDS in name only...
...help Franco's forces-dies in Spain when her train is bombed, while another humiliatingly ends up in the bed of a boorish art instructor who has an unrequited yen for Miss Brodie. Eventually, poor Miss Brodie is denounced to the headmistress by one of her cliquish girls, Amy Taubin, as a Fascist and dismissed-a melodramatic device so archaic as to seem almost piquant...
...quadrangle will be associated with the Woodrow Wilson Society, which will provide dining, social and study facilities for quad residents. The Wilson Society was set up in 1957 as the University's first alternative to the clubs. It has been criticized, however, for being just as ingrown and cliquish as Prospect St. About 40 sophomores join every year...
...that Harvard is in the difficult position of having to promote integration and afford students as much liberty as possible at the same time. The problem was illustrated last year, Epps says, when a number of Freshman Negroes were told by their proctor that they shouldn't be so cliquish and sit at the same table at the Freshman Union. It is in precisely this kind of situation, Epps contends, that students must be left alone...