Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gradually, in sequential frames of the film, a transformation occurs. He abandons the glasses, dons a rakish cap, sprouts a beard. Over a period of weeks he begins to look remarkably like Che when he came out of Cuba's Sierra Maestra with Castro in 1959. The one element that makes the pictures current is a woman at his side; she was an Argentine guerrilla companion nicknamed Tania killed only three weeks ago in a skirmish with the Bolivian army...
...that point the Crimson defense allowed a long kick to bounce over the goalie's head into the net. Senior John Axten, with the wind and sun in his face, misjudged the play and leaped up in vain for the element-aided shot...
...noise. Shurcliff describes it as making every house along the boom path seem "next door to a jet airport"--only worse. The sound of an arriving jet (all commercial jets fly below the speed of sound) builds up gradually, so at the peak of the noise there is no element of surprise. But a sonic boom provides no warning, and Shurcliff thinks that it is the boom's startling effect, even more than the noise itself, which makes it intolerable...
...real problems with making a scene at Harvard is that, by and large, the administrators and school officials are both intelligent and liberal. Although at first glance this might appear an asset which would allow a strong hippie element to emerge, in the final analysis Harvard's liberalism takes the wind out of potential protest issues. For instance how can you stage a "sleep-in" when parietals are constantly being liberalized. Last year proved that University officials are not apt to make any of the same kind of disasterous mistakes that Kerr made in Berkeley. During the McNamara demonstration Dean...
...however, that the situation is not nearly as clear cut at Harvard. Here we have part-time hippies and activists. Rarely does one find a full full-time hippy simply because it would be difficult for him to survive the system. Hippies, by now, should have become a recognized element of our generation and the colleges, if they expect to keep them within the system must adapt to them. However, in the last few years it has become apparent that the colleges are not about to make any fundamental changes to accommodate the hippies. The initiative, therefore, must come from...