Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although there are distressing signs of apathy among many students, a cooler activism is taking hold among those who reason that such problems as pollution and racial discrimination can be solved only by old-fashioned political pressure. Student concerns may be increasingly represented in state legislatures and court actions by Nader-like lobbies. The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, for example, is financed by student fees at campuses across the state. It will go to work this fall with a full-time professional staff of ten to 15 lawyers and scientists-plus a budget...
...Your article "Class of '68 Revisited: A Cooler Anger" [May 17] badly represents that class. Most of the individuals TIME chose to interview never left the academic community. What of those who went to Viet Nam, who decided to enter the System? What of those who married and had children? We all don't live in communes; some of us live next door...
After last year's Earth Day and this year's Earth Week, the next logical steps are Earth Year, Decade and Century. The crusade is at least getting cooler and saner. Instead of noisy confrontations, the 1971 "week" that ended April 25 ran to practical matters like arranging bottle pickups and improvising urban malls. New York City, for example, banned cars on Madison Avenue two hours a day for the entire week. Joining 38 Governors, President Nixon himself endorsed Earth Week, an action he did not feel it necessary to take on Earth Day, even though...
ALMOST unnoticed because of the distractions of Viet Nam, the rest of Asia has been undergoing some widespread and fundamental changes. In the past several months, a suddenly cooler China has been the catalyst of a number of gradual shifts that have been taking place in the mood and manner of Asia's capitals. Last week's invitation to the U.S. table-tennis team to visit China was an example of Peking's new approach...
...quit the suite, happily to discover the cooler air of the corridor outside, you look back to see Sutherland's six feet four inches silhouetted against the weak sun that now washes through the window. It's after five. But for a flight back home, his day is finished. And you can sympathize with his exhaustion. Because, you think, even if you consider his politics even more confused than you figure your own, at least he's doing something. And, well, maybe if one of the side effects of this war has been to make someone like Donald Sutherland more...