Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group has not tried to make political debate common in the Faculty- rather, Ptashine claimed, his opponents have done that with their proposals...
...Harvard students the march was scheduled to begin at noon from the Cambridge Common, but was half an hour late in getting started. About 100 students began here, joined another 50 at M.I.T., and picked up the remaining 150 in Boston...
...university isn't neutral." Pennington said at the end of the rally. "It uses committees, cops and troops to attack the people. We must ally ourselves with the working people and fight the common enemy...
...ONLY thing safe to say about SDS these days is that none of its variations has much in common with the SDS that drafted the "Port Haron Statement" in 1962. That was a group of disaffected students and intellectuals, alienated both from the American dream and the pedantic Old Left squabbles their parents had engaged in thirty years before. Led by Tom Hayden and Al Haber, these children of Hiroshima and Coca-Cola nurtured on Paul Goodman hoped to forge a "New Left" that would revive radical politics after the critical somnolence of the fifties...
...Revolutionary Offensive is actually a hodgepodge of programs which share a common aim; the elimination of the last vestiges of capitalism in Cuba. At the outset of the campaign the Cuban government quickly confiscated the 55,000 private businesses which had continued to flourish in the absence of efficient state distribution of products. Though 30-40 percent of Cuba's arable land remains in private hands, the government also began curtailing the free market in the agricultural sector, insisting that farmers sell an increasing quantity of their products to the state at government prices...