Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right. Marcuse's answer is to wage revolution with small groups of intellectuals and students. But more than one campus commando has reached the same conclusion as Jürgen Horiemann, 26-year-old West German S.D.S. (Socialist Student League) leader. "We simply are not a power factor in society," he says. "We cannot alone carry out our cultural revolution...
While pay scales are a major factor, housing's cost problem reaches far beyond wages. The $24 billion industry has been fettered for decades by myriad little, mostly local ties that bind it to old-fashioned methods and an archaic organization. Each strand of that web reinforces the others&$151;enormously inflating the price of the final product...
...pranks. Despite the grossest of local, state, and federal misdemeanors piling up against them, the Harvard name and the sanctity of its privilege would seem to show its mark in most cases. Yet, despite recent atmosphere of flippancy towards laws and rules, it would seem that a major prohibitive factor in the pranks market lies in fear of trespassing or lawbreaking. A perfect example of this was in the elaborate 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings plotted by the Lampoon last year. Rich and jubilant after a tremendously successful Play boy parody, the Poonies hired elephants and specially designed...
...factor could explain France's eruption. The workers certainly did not go to the barricades because of censorship, the young did not rebel because of bad art or poor music. But all these things taken together caused the new mood in France, a crisis of attitudes. Ultimately what happened was the result of simply having too much De Gaulle. "Without me, this country wouldn't be anything," he once said. "Without me, it would all have collapsed. For years, I've carried France on my shoulders." No nation with any pretense to vitality can indefinitely be carried on the shoulders...
...Bill of Rights guarantees, Justice John Harlan repeated his feeling that due process "requires only that criminal trials be fundamentally fair." Since it cannot "be demonstrated that trial by jury is the only fair means," Justice Harlan would have upheld the conviction. But fairness was not the pivotal factor to Justice Byron White, who wrote for the majority. To him, the jury trial is so "fundamental to the American scheme of justice" that every citizen is entitled to it in "serious" criminal cases, whether or not another trial method might also have been fair. The court did not specify what...