Word: exits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Duke Kent-Brown has the right to speak, the Black Students Association has the right to heckle, even though heckling makes speaking more difficult. And when members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee blocked two of three exists to the Science Center auditorium, ideally forcing Kent-Brown to exit past demonstrators in the Science Center courtyard, they made movement difficult but by no means impossible. As long as protesters respect the peaceful limitations inherent to civil disobedience, their actions enjoy legitimacy...
...Tokyo. The structures are playful siblings, not identical twins, the forms clearly modern but vaguely ancient. What Tange has called "two huge comma shapes out of alignment" reminds us how satisfying form following function can be. Instead of the usual Rube Goldberg arena system of numbered entrances and exit ramps, the single wide mouths of the Olympic stadiums show themselves unequivocally...
...students outraged by apartheid, demand that the South African vice consul exit the room through the front doors to the Science Center lobby, where he will see and hear the opposition of Harvard students to the policies of his government. A speaker from the African National Congress is waiting there to engage the vice consul in debate. To thwart any plan of shielding Mr. Kent-Brown from the free speech of others by spiriting him out the back doors, we are moving down to block these doors peacefully and non-violently. We have no intention of interfering with Mr. Kent...
...acted to block the back doors peacefully and nonviolently "only so that he will leave by the front doors." We remained silent throughout this action and made no attempt to rush the podium or obstruct passage through the lobby doors; our intent was to ensure his eventual exit through the lobby and to demonstrate peacefully and silently our opposition to the system of apartheid which Kent-Brown was defending. We never considered using force to deny Kent-Brown's freedom to move wherever or whenever he wanted. Our intent was rather to form a symbolic blockade, supported by the audience...
...planning the protest we envisioned two possible University responses. They could have heard our intent, negotiated, agreed to have Kent-Brown exit through the lobby doors, and then let the speech continue...