Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government was invited to come to the University on August 20 to discuss the six-point plan, but no government representative came. The University declared that it would strike indefinitely until the government agreed to public discussion...
...Deep South itself, Mississippi--with its title of "Poorest State In The Nation" and its legendary smalltown sheriffs--may be more glamorous than Alabama; but Mississippi's notoriety has made it the target of many more civil rights projects than have ever come to Alabama. It's possible to make a good case for Southwest Georgia as the most segregated area in the country, but Georgia also contains semi-progressive Atlanta and black legislators like Julian Bond. South Carolina has Storm Thurmond, Louisiana has Leander Perez, and Arkansas and Tennessee have their residual rednecks. But for over-all misery--that...
...didn't work that way with food stamps. Three dollars isn't much, but many families were unable to come up with those three dollars every month. White county administrators took careful note of the fact that the number of families receiving Food Stamps was only about a third of the number that had lined up for Commodities. And the white administrators knew that it wasn't because the other two-thirds didn't need help anymore...
Others worry that the rapid growth of house courses is putting pressure on every house to come up with a full roster like Winthrop's, that the pressure may lead some Masters to recruit volunteers, and in the long run, might make willingness to teach house courses a criterion for hiring resident tutors...
...derive from the very act of disruption. But if that is all you see, then you have a problem of perception. Such blind condemnation can only confirm the already prevalent suspicion that somehow you can't or won't listen to what we have been trying to say--that, come what may, you won't be stirred from your business-asusual complacency. If our generation in general, and the movement in particular, have to be described in a word or two, I would call them not a nihilistic generation but above all else a moral generation--in this time...