Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Students have attended the meetings before, but as far as I know, they have not given a paper, presented a symposium or run a session," said Allen S. Weinrub, a graduate student in the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and one of the symposium's organizers...
James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and chairman of the Subcommittee of Six, said that May had given his committee complaints against four students for "harassment" of the dean while he was announcing to University Hall occupiers their temporary suspension...
...rather vague plan for a temporary coalition government composed of "each social class" in South Viet Nam and each distinct political tendency. During the interim before elections, Tho told Schecter, no party should be "in a position to exert pressure on the population and oblige it to adopt a given political regime." For what it is worth, Tho promised to free political prisoners, presumably meaning pacifists jailed by the present Saigon regime, and to "forbid" terrorism or acts of revenge against those who had joined either side. Just how Tho-or anyone else-would guarantee that the elections would...
...Amherst College commencement; the class valedictorian declared: "Our parents and our teachers believe in adulthood and maturity: our wish is to stay immature as little children." It was meant metaphorically; yet it expressed a profound disillusion with the values of the "older generation"-or perhaps the lack of them. Given little to believe in or rebel against by their liberal parents, the young filled the void with their own lifestyles. The decade's compulsive clichés-"relevant" and "meaningful"-suggested a desperate search for identity...
...asked her where her daughter was. She said that lately she and Tana had been going through changes, and that she didn't want to put ideas into her daughter's head the way her parents had done to her. So she had "given it back to itself...