Word: forward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidacy is improbable; yet in the course of his campaign Mailer has put forward some provocative ideas. Many merely peck at the periphery of urban problems, frequently with a large mea sure of hyperbole. Mailer proposes a monthly Sweet Sunday, when every form of mechanical transportation - including elevators - would be halted. His idea is to give the citizens periodic respite from air pollution caused by cars, trucks, buses and other machinery. He calls for a circumferential monorail in Manhattan, which would ease congestion on traffic-crammed city streets. -, He also suggests that Coney Island be turned into a Las Vegas...
...that the costs themselves were too high. These results, insofar as they are due to force, derive at least as much from the shock of the bust as from that of the seizure. In the wake of these shocks, what put the place together again and made it move forward was a generalized and passionate display of the good uses of reason: colloquia, meetings, discussion, negotiations, most of which proved constructive and orderly. Surely the price paid by the University--animosities, divisions, sanctions, fatigue, the genuine suffering inflicted by the events on so many, and the diversion of energy from...
...already got the tickets for Friday night. Did your read in the Crimson? They seemed to think it was a pretty good flick. I'm kind a looking forward to it, aren...
...often, as talk and debate about these matters goes forward, opinion seems to divide according to our ways of speaking. Some speak as if what had happened was that members of a single corporate community had fallen out with each other, to the point of committing outrageous personal offenses against each other and declaring (worst of all) a fixed lack of trust. But others speak as it the university (identical with University Hall and the corporal sanctity of its officers) had come under attack by outsiders--who, being outsiders, could fairly be called the worst conceivable names and dealt with...
Third, the Personnel Office should be encouraged to go forward with a program it now has under consideration for a pre-job and apprentice training program...