Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clapton, the Beatles have fashioned their own version of the medium, a kind of pop-blues that is faithful to the spirit and style of the real blues. It is so exciting to hear the Beatles play the blues that one is tempted to wish that they might fully commit themselves...
This sentiment is paradoxical considering that the HUC currently is having its most fruitful year. And as the student body becomes more radical, the HUC, with some major reforms, should be able to lead and organize future movements for University reform. To commit suicide now would be to throw away a viable instrument for turning student demands into concrete action...
...radicals who wish to commit institutional suicide are disappointed because they have had to spend this year convincing the rest of the HUC to follow their proposals. They would rather have organized the student body into power blocs to gain what they desire from the Faculty...
...boast (if boast is the word) even more precarious futures. The general has lost his $50,000-a-year job as board chairman of a California electronics firm. Cleaver, who won nearly 200,000 votes, is headed for a California courtroom to stand trial for assault with intent to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon-the result of a shoot-out with Oakland police officers last April. In the meantime, he is lecturing at Berkeley...
Although Bloch emphasized that he did not want to commit the department to any course of action before the Tuesday meeting, he did say, "My own personal feeling is that the meeting should be open to graduate students who are thinking of making their career at Dow and representatives of various Harvard organizations. A completely open meeting would not be appropriate or feasible," he added...