Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, of the consequences of a microcosm that would be allowed to determine the proper path for itself. That would be a terrible thing in a democracy. Betsy Ross would probably have dropped a stitch at the mere thought, and that long-haired rebel George Washington just might have fallen out of his boat...
Confined to their bases to mourn their fallen comrades, Egyptian army units, re-equipped with Soviet armor and vehicles, swore a solemn oath "by great Allah" to liberate Arab lands occupied by Israel. MIG 21s wheeled over Cairo in tight combat formation...
Collective Sigh. Though Marcuse claims to be basically Marxist, he has also fallen under attack in the Soviet Union, where the wave of European student revolutions has met with anything but comradely applause. In a fiercely worded attack on "werewolves" who are "blasphemously using Marx's name," the Russian party organ Pravda recently accused Marcuse of trying to "introduce confusion in the ranks of the fighters against the old world." In fact, Pravda has a good deal more than confusion to worry about: today's young rebels against the Establishment include in their targets the bureaucratic structure...
...other crews had fallen far behind as Harvard and Penn took the cadence up to 38 beats per minute, then higher...
With war still raging in Vietnam, it also is a good day to visit Memorial Church, which was dedicated to those Harvard men who died in the first world war. Listen for the bell, which bears the inscription "In Memoray of Voices that are Hushed." Pause before the fallen knight of The Sacrifice, a grieving woman at his head. See engraved the names of Eliot Adams Chapin and 372 other Harvard men who died to make the world safe for democracy. Think of Vietnam and the Class of '68 and tomorrow...