Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beings have and the wrongs which they suffer. Its fundamental message is that when a society, no matter what its political structure or philosophy, so oppresses a people as to choke off their life-force, those people have no choice but to resort to violence. The author contends that given the unwillingness of America to let black men be men blacks have no alternative to using violence-restricted violence, hopefully, with a definite purpose: but if that fails then large-scale guerilla warfare, and the consequences be damned...
...National Office of SDS had never given too much thought to the working class, and the New Left as a whole had prided itself on being undogmatic in its analysis and flexible in its strategies. And, anyway, the N.O. exerted almost no control over local chapters and it circulated its position papers to encourage debate rather than enforce policy. Many members of SDS who had previously relied on an inmitive feeling for politics now found that their intuitive notions could not match the clear. if mechanistic, analysis of their PL contemporaries...
...Weatherman in a theoretical discussion, the only thing clear so far about them is that they have balls. Unfortunately it seems to be of the Guerrilla Theater variety-are they interested in hurting the system, or showing that they want to? Why don't they engage in sabotage? Given their analysis it makes more sense to blow up war factories and labs at night than to get in fights every other...
Eriksen did not enroll at Harvard after learning his status, staying instead at his San Francisco home. He discovered Thursday that he must report in December to the Twelfth Naval District Base on Treasure Island and will be given further assignments after his arrival there...
Neiman-Marcus is already touting it as the "chic Christmas gift of 1969." The day it went on sale at Bloomingdale's in Manhattan last week, lines formed as if something were being given away. Not quite. The bulky box labeled Vasarely Planetary Folklore Participation No. 1 costs $500. For that, the customer receives 390 colored, magnetized plastic pieces to be arranged at will within a 20-in. by 20-in. frame -plus the added attraction of hanging a work of art he can claim, truthfully enough, to have put together himself...