Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your coverage of campus disturbances has been most meticulous. However, you, in common with other magazines and other media, persist in describing campuses as intellectual communities. Do you truly believe that a concourse of post-adolescents constitutes an intellectual community? Granted, we must listen to the cacophonous yelping from the occupied college library, but we must listen because the unruly young are the voice of the times, not because they are the voice of the intellectuals. In this country, we have hazy notions about what makes an intellectual: currently the term seems to mean someone who read quite...
...Common Ground. What remained undefined were the modalities in Paris: how to get Hanoi and the National Liberation Front to begin discussing a withdrawal schedule, how to persuade Saigon to talk of compromising on election particulars. U.S. Negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge, however, remained de termined to push the talks off dead center. "We have reached a stage in these negotiations where the issues have become clear, and we can now get down to serious discussion of them in specific detail," he declared. Lodge thereupon named five specific issues-ranging from agreements on Laos and Cambodia to release of prisoners-where...
...their hatred of society that makes it so easy for the small group of militant leaders to make common cause with another small group that provides temporary leadership for some of the rebellious: outright paranoid individuals. I do not believe the number of paranoids among students is greater than their number would be in any comparable group of the population. They become dangerous again because of their high intelligence, which permits them to hide more successfully the degree of their disturbance from the nonexpert. Having worked professionally with some of them for years, I know that student revolt permits them...
Committee member Alexander Keyssar estimated the group's potential strength to be "in the hundreds" and announced a mass meeting for seniors interested in the protest for tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...most common charges are active participation in the seizure of University Hall and remaining in the building despite instructions to leave. Others include various acts of ejecting deans from the building, going through University files, and, in the case of Marjorie A. Angell '71, "directing and inciting male students to use force against deans and other University figures whom she personally designated" and "addressing obscene and abusive language to Dean Glimp...