Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peltier, materials manager for the G. E. warehouse, said that the pickets were ignored by the people working inside the plant. He attributed this to the fact that the warehouse workers were members of the Teamsters' Union. The management did not ignore the pickets, however. Shortly after they arrived, Kelman said, a neatly lettered sign bearing the inscription. "The employees in this company are not on strike," was placed just outside the entrance to the warehouse...
...documentary photography of the 1930's minutely recording filthy faces and ragged clothes no longer shocks us. Hardened by color pictures of Vietnam and Appalachia. we often see the acceptance of suffering in the eyes of poverty-stricken people as almost an historical fact...
...demands made at the time University Hall was occupied, two rapidly emerged as the central issues of the ensuing weeks-ROTC presence on the campus and University expansion. The radical position is that ROTC was finally withdrawn from Harvard only because physical confrontation was used by students. In fact, ROTC would probably have been withdrawn on the basis of the faculty resolution passed in February. The resolution stated in part "That the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
...view the university professors as the authors of national policies is to credit them with far more power than they actually possess. The role of intellectuals has been more to justify actions after the fact than to make a critical difference in fundamental decisions...
...makes the use of violence questionable is that white students are not likely to suffer great harm from any frenzied reactions to violence at the university. A cracked head, a fine, and a short jail sentence are not pleasant but they are not disastrous. Those radicals who have in fact gone into the community are subject to potentially severe penalties although the country has not yet demonstrated a sustained desire to deal with white radicals in the way in which it has dealt with the Black Panthers...