Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guests. The host, a subcommittee of the House Un-American Activities Committee, had issued subpoenas instead of invitations in an effort to determine precisely who had concocted Chicago. The purpose of last week's hearing in Washington, said Subcommittee Chairman Richard Ichord,* was to find out the extent to which the Chicago rumble had been "planned, instigated, incited or supported by Communist and other subversive organizations and individuals," and to see whether they should recommend that any legislation be enacted by Congress...
...that were the extent of the problem, Simon could easily enough discard all the lines left over from the movie and substitute his own. But much of his own dialogue, in addition to being incongruous, is downright awkward. Too many of the show's laughs as presently constituted drain the credibility of its characters and situations. For instance, Simon has the doctor from across the hall at one point volunteer that "Experimentally, I took a trip once on L.S.D.--I had a better time in Miami Beach when it rained for two weeks." Lines like that and "I'm just...
...Many more had been in the buildings earlier. Some of the latter were doubtless curiosity seekers. For others in both groups the affair probably had many of the elements of the once-traditional spring riots and subsequent "panty raids." But even after discount is made for those elements, the extent of active participation in violent and unlawful protest is significant...
...must have polarized opinion. There would be a tendency to put unjust blame upon those who called for police intervention rather than those--chiefly from SDS--whose deliberate efforts to provoke disruptive turbulence made it almost inevitable that police action would be required. Despite these complex cross-currents, the extent and persistence of the ultimate reaction against the University Administration is adequately explained only by the presence of strong but latent dissatisfaction quickened by the violence of events...
...students supposedly dedicated only to destruction and violence. The Cox Commission has established that the Columbia rebellion was not all due to SDS members and their "exaggeration" of the actual state of affairs. It has, as the New York Times said in its editorial, provided "depressing confirmation of the extent to which administrative rigidity and obtuseness contributed to academic chaos." The Cox report does say that SDS members and other radical students helped add to the tension, and it does criticize their tactics ("The fact is that on April 23 methods consistent with reason and civility were available and still...