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The statement noted that "as athletes, we are not insensitive to these issues and feel that our participation in athletics does not excuse us from our obligation to society. Some individual have decided to refrain from competition today, while others choose to symbolize their discontent by means other than abstention...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Six Blacks Leave Track Team in Protest | 4/22/1972 | See Source »

What makes Ibsen of primary importance for twentieth century literature--what Joyce called "his lofty, impersonal power"--is driven to its furthest conclusion in When We Dead Awaken. Subtitled "A Dramatic Epilogue" because it concludes a long series of socially critical dramas beginning with A Doll's House, the play...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: When We Dead Awaken | 4/21/1972 | See Source »

Isolated attacks on universities, and corporations as well, are pointless when serious efforts are being made throughout the country to protest the latest escalation of the war in Southeast Asia. History has shown that under sufficient pressure the American government, and the American people, respond to united and disciplined expressions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The CFIA Incident | 4/19/1972 | See Source »

More perceptive observers-among them Organizer Saul Alinsky and Columnist Joseph Kraft-understood him better. They realized that his fears for his safety were justified and, more significant, that he had genuine economic grievances. With that, the Forgotten American had arrived, and the Republicans were the first to seize him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The New Populism: Radicalizing the Middle | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

As discontent became more visible, liberals hastily reversed themselves. They came to realize that no substantial reform can be accomplished without the foot soldiers: the working-class whites. As they look back on it now, the radical student crusade of the 1960s, though it raised many valid issues, seems to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The New Populism: Radicalizing the Middle | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

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