Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what has become virtually an annual event, however, the last session of the state legislature defeated a bill to build the Patriots a permanent stadium because the legislators could not agree on plans for financing the stadium. As has also become customary, the legislature then tossed the ball to Harvard, approving Bartley's proposal to have a commission open negotiations with Harvard on the matter...
...official policies produces a strong proclivity toward ever greater levels of violence. To wrench emotions, an action must be dramatic; to be dramatic, it must be unique; to be unique in America in 1969 it is increasingly necessary to be violent. A student picket line in 1960 was an event with some emotional impact; a picket line in 1969 is hardly likely to prompt even intellectual curiosity. Occupying a building is almost passe. Peaceful protests may still be effective in changing government practices but they do not have a strong psychological impact. Violence has become more attractive for SDS because...
...many American cities, however, Lindsay would have to face a run-off. New York, which has retained partisan municipal elections in the face of a trend away from them, requires only a plurality at all stages of the event. The Lindsay camp has made much of the fact that Procaccino could not have won a run-off within his own Democratic Party-former Mayor Robert Wagner would have been a strong favorite in such a contest...
...more difficult task will be winning the Paul C. Staake Regatta at Coast Guard. A great deal will depend upon which regatta the various college teams concentrate on. Harvard has quite a bit of depth, and it could win this event also if most of the good crews sail at M.I.T...
...Senelick (who appears to be hopelessly multi-talented-and are "modern" in the same way that Dudley Fitts translations of Aristophanes are modern (And I was always a little bit repulsed by hearing a character in The Birds saying. "Gadzooks," but that could just be my hangup.) In any event, Senclick has translated both so that they come out a little like satires on contemporary Jewish marriage...