Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEAD END SCHOOL, by Robert Coles (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95). The well-known author of Children of Crisis here tells the story of one Negro family's fight to have their children educated in a decent school...
...hostile and ready to explode, and opposition politicians closing ranks to cut him down. A lesser man might have quit; so serious was the situation that De Gaulle in fact considered it. But like his countrymen at the Marne 54 years before, he decided to stand his ground and fight. France responded, and by sheer force of will-and with some help from the French army-De Gaulle triumphed in perhaps the greatest crisis in his long service to France...
...Gold Coast is to the Gold Coast Valeteria, so the Harvard prank of yesterday is to the prank of today. The finely wrought practical joke of the past had the excitement of a shaving cream fight, the sophisticated delicacy of a neurosurgical operation, the cold reality of J. Edgar Hoover breathing down its neck, and usually a large dose of University Hall. The only remaining tradition in the hoax-and-dagger line is the stealing of the Lampoon lbis from its perch atop the Lampoon building...
...think that people should be required to debate in order to have a right to recruit at Harvard, for the proposal may encourage the glib and inhibit the different--and not at all the dishonest. And I continue to belive that students should fight the evils of society directly in the society, as a great many have done and are doing now, taking universities and even Harvard with less solemnity as the measure of all ideals, the forum for all polemics. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences
Square is square (11 in. by 11 in.) It is published in the enemy camp, as it were-Westwood Village, which is also the address of the University of California in Los Angeles. The magazine tries to fight for the right with the New Left's own tactics; despite its name, its appearance is hip, its art psychedelic. Only the message is different: against free love and drugs, for the draft and the war in Viet Nam. One article draws a parallel between the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and the current alliance of New Leftists and black militants...