Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such behavior cannot be stopped by the law alone, but only by the enforcement of the law--a fact which the referendum organizers themselves acknowledge by calling for a continued enforcement campaign...
Protestors said that one girl involved in organizing student support was temporized by two men who broke into her apartment. Ehrlich denied that Outlet had any connection with the incident. Employees of Outlet had in fact complained that the strikers were terrorizing non-strikers, Ehrlich said...
This whole incident proves a potent fact: even if radicals wanted to wield a tyranny, and they don't, they couldn't do so. The real tyranny, on the contrary, comes not from radicals but from the established powers, which make students so terrified of losing their degrees that they turn upon each other...
...picture, and explode the necessity as well as the desirability of such American traits as self-advancement, money-mania, and social indifference. Their complaints, taken at the aesthetic and philosophical levels, reach us through a different tradition than the complaints of historians, but they are more powerful for that fact, and, indeed, for their stark prescience, seem to need none of their Hegelian or Sade-ian predecessors to be powerful...
...national experience require some point of intersection to reach us all, or even to reach some of us. Americans whatever there is in the "Organization Man" syndrome of modern sociology, do have different spiritual centers even if their everyday behavior seems tightly organized and compulsively conformist. The simple fact that most of us have genes and cultural traits acquired somewhere else than in America necessitates a fence-straddling approach to national identity. Norman Mailer, among others, has tried to speak to the American side of us, i.e., to the side that we have acquired since getting off the boat. Philip...