Word: comely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really come only to test myself. And in the meantime to pretend merely to play a role, to be a would-be streetfighter, to laugh at my own needs, to search out ironies and inconsistencies, to hunt down all that was absurd...
...real self-test had been denied. The march was too bland, the cops were too friendly, and a real confrontation had never come off. For all our romanticizing, the gas had precluded all possibilities of confrontation. How do you fight an element? The use of gas masks makes cops disguise themselves, it denies demonstrators the use of their only weapons, their bodies. Gas had neutralized the situation. So why feel guilty that I hadn't been blinded by it, or that it hadn't made me vomit? Was that the confrontation I had come for? Because...
...great last year. Harvard was undefeated, they were playing Dowling's Invincible the next afternoon, and the Harvard Band was there at Dillon Field House to salute the squad when it came out for its final practice. George Lalich's father had come all the way from Chicago with gangster hats that read RUB OUT YALE, and was passing them...
...Renault of building-takeovers and sit-ins and the ensuing changes in University governance and policies, many members of this community have acquired a mentality which holds that change will not come without militant action. This presents sad prospects for the future. The members of this community must seriously consider what conduct is appropriate within the University. Until that time, change at Harvard will be marked with disruption and synonymous with reports from the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...
...assistant coaches were running their individual segments of the squad through drills, and there were running their individual segments of the squad through drills, and there were a few managers cleaning off balls and attending to various necessities. There was no one else around. The Band hadn't come down. The undergraduates who had been buzzing around Dillon last year were not there this time. But George Lalich's father was, and it was all pretty...