Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professors, acting on the sugestion of "some younger members of the teaching staff," are organizing the group to counter what they call "the temptation to throw up one's hands in despair and futility...
...Lampoon's counter-demonstration last Friday, as buses left for the march on Washington, began as an indifferent spoof of demonstrations in general, but ended as an ugly, tasteless row by a mob of know-nothings. The students who showed up "to have a little fun" represents that segment of Harvard which is mostly without strong poltical motivation, and which finds sincerity embarrassing...
...When asked why, Ansara explained that SDS was planning a protest march on Washington, and that the Boston buses were leaving from in front of the Lampoon building. Several members of the Lampoon immediately began recruiting people by phone, and later in the dining halls, to come to a counter-demonstration on the steps of the Lampoon building. By the time the buses were scheduled to leave, a crowd of nearly 200 had gathered...
...other signs read "On to Hanoi" and urged bombing of the North Vietnamese capitol. Before long, the counter-demonstrators and their impeccably dressed dates were marching around chanting "War! War! War!" and "On to Moscow!" Many were drunk...
...serious counter-demonstration by supporters of the Administration's policy in Vietnam, or a well-executed parody of the SDS demonstration, might have been appropriate. But Friday's drunken rally, by students whose credo allows no room for commitment of any sort, was repugnant...