Word: containable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coleman first suggested the idea of a record about Harvard football when he and Harvard's director of sports information. Baaron I. Pittenger, were traveling to Princeton for the football game last Fall. The original idea was for the record to contain highlights of ten great Crimson football games...
...organizers could not have involved themselves in rock polities, but at least they could have provided a little more information on what is known of the rocks' makeup and history. The fullest description so far appears in the 19 September issue of Science Magazine (the last two pages contain the essentials...
...obviously the offspring of bureaucratic imaginations gone beserk. One element that is genuine, however, is Nader's reputation for putting on a good show. His victims have learned that Nader has an astounding knack of attracting publicity and using the press. He consistently loads his public statements to contain the right mixture of documentation and verbal flamboyance (in the McGovern testimony, for instance, hot dogs with a high fat content became "fatfurters-American's deadliest missiles"). In his increasingly frequent speeches and television appearances. Nader regularly emits the kind of easily graspable, shocking facts that are calculated to galvanize...
After that kind of build-up, the most frequently heard description of "the Student's Role" would contain exhortations for militant action to end the universities' prostitution. Nader seemed to be on his way there when he said that the students of the last two years have taught everyone a clear lesson: university administrations are more responsive to physical stimulus than ethical pleas. "Isn't it a disgrace that it took the physical displacement of a few men called deans to get larger numbers of students and faculty finally to face important issues...
They specifically warned that this refusal must not happen on the fringes of society like that of the American hippies or Dutch Provos, because society can easily contain the marginal revolts of individuals. The only recourse was a frontal attack against society by relusing all legitimacy and doing the illegal. The focal point was direct action, violent and spectacular confrontation through personal insult, scandal, provocation, violent street demonstrations, and breaking of police lines. The aim was to ridicule...