Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest against the War of 1812; New England is now in the vanguard of M-day. Boston lawyers decided to meet in historic Faneuil Hall, and then stand by, wearing green arm bands, to provide on-the-spot legal assistance if needed at an afternoon rally on Boston Common. Republican Governor Francis Sargent, who says of Viet Nam that "the want-to-get-out sentiment has grown rapidly," was to address a peace rally on the town green in suburban Lexington, where the first shot of the Revolutionary War was fired...
...Behavioral scientists have long recognized the signal, as well as its application in settling the dominance issue between two strangers. But the recent Exeter experiment, conducted by Psychologist Brian Champness and reported before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, added an unexpected new dimension to this common behavior pattern...
Darlington states, for instance, that the incest taboo, which is not only common to all human societies but is regarded as a moral decision to avoid the hazards of inbreeding, is, in fact, instinctive. Just as evolution forbids self-pollination to the hermaphrodite flower, so evolution prohibits incest in man. "In a stable world," he writes, "[inbreeding] allows, it even guarantees, success. But in a changing world it brings disaster. For the inbred race in plants, animals or men is uniform and predictable like a variety of potato. Faced with new situations, new environments, it is quickly displaced in competition...
...Richard W. Osborne '72 of the Mobilization Committee called the Moratorium "an enormous success as a building stone for the march on Washington." Osborne said it was apparent that the majority of people on the Boston Common Wednesday were in favor of immediate withdrawal from Vietnam...
After the services, the worshippers walked in a procession to the vigil, which was held on the baseball diamond in the Common. The first arrivals sang folk songs as they waited for the vigil to begin...