Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France upside down?student unrest and inflation?are endemic to most of Europe. Indeed, until three weeks ago, European students elsewhere had been far more ferocious than the French ones. Now, in an ominous emulation, Belgian students last week seized the university in Brussels, and New Left students in England placed the black flag of anarchy atop the London School of Economics. Warned the West German weekly Rheinischer Merkur: "France does not stand outside the political streams and conflicts of the Western world. The call for reform in Paris is just as loud as we hear it in Bonn...
Twice De Gaulle has heard France call. The first time was in 1940, when, an unknown brigadier general, he climbed into a Royal Air Force plane near Bordeaux and escaped to England, where he organized the Free French forces that ultimately helped free his occupied homeland. The second was in 1958, when the colons and paratroopers in Algeria rose in revolt. But now, a decade after his second call to service, France is caught up in almost as much chaos as?and perhaps more than?when De Gaulle came to power in 1958. The question is, Can De Gaulle once...
Alas, the style that West developed in Rome and later brought to England was anything but natural. He experimented with pompous neoclassicism, then bombastic religious allegory. He pioneered in introducing elements of realism into his heavy historical tableaux, won riches and renown, was elected president of the Royal Academy. But to Byron...
...campus is cold, compact, and Kafkaesque. Little new has been built on the campus since the 1920's; and its buildings are the repeated module of Italian Renaissance and New England architecture. It's very pretty in the summer. But most of the time students are there, they are knee deep in snow...
...same skepticism is in junior Robert L. Hall's article, "SNCC's Call to North Black Students," an account and criticism of last March's New England Regional Black Student Conference, "Black Power and the Talented 10 Per Cent." That conference was a first formal aggravation of the northern black student's conscience, which had rested easier during the fifties and early sixties while racism was being battled mostly in the south. At last spring's conference, Hall reports, James Forman criticized black students at Northern prestige schools, told them: "You're not the talented 10 per cent--the talented...