Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Repeatedly urged to withdraw their names by letter, telegram, and personal envoy from Rockefeller, the delegates decided to stand fast and ignore their candidate's wishes...
...today, at least 30 universities now offer a Ph.D. in linguistics, compared with only four just 20 years ago. Ten years ago, the offering of an undergraduate major in linguistics was a rarity; now it is an option at some 30 universities. The field is growing so fast that the nation's 4,000 or so fully qualified linguists (roughly one for each of the world's languages) cannot keep up with the research and teaching load-and the shortage of scholars makes them highly mobile, gradually pushes up their salaries...
...movie was Breathless, which in the eight years since its release has been generally accepted by critics as a landmark in movie history. It remains a typical example of France's nouvelle vague, with its theme of alienation, its air of improvisation, its lexicon of once-bizarre techniques-fast dissolves, ricocheting cuts, grainy camera work-that are now an accepted part of the moviemakers' craft...
THIS week's fast has effectively increased commitment within the Harvard community to work against the war. To call the fast a waste of energy is to engage in the self indulgent pettifoggery which has been so damaging to the anti-war movement since its inception. There is no totality of "anti-war energy" from which the fast has stolen a valuable "amount X." Harvard is notoriously only represent an increase in this pittance...
...fast has involved more than a personal commitment. The entire community has benefitted from the increased political activity. Fasters have canvassed every dining hall, and asked students to examine the methods they have chosen to oppose the war. In addition, they have distributed 3000 pamphlets which describe every anti-war organization in Cambridge and Boston. The purpose of the fast has been to build a political commitment out of a personal...