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Even so, symbols are politically important. "Last year," said Markey, "Reagan thought this was just a quiche-and-Chablis movement that would blow away over the summer. Well, it hasn't." Agrees a White House tactician: "The freeze movement is one of the best-organized grass-roots movements I've seen. It's not a bunch of crazy kids." Even so, Markey concedes, "we don't see the President changing his mind [on arms control] tomorrow...
...bother to venture outside of the hockey rink. For example, recent events at Colby were a panel discussion on the humanities and scientific implications of genetic engineering: a visit by Garry Wills as writer-in-residence a student production of "The Trojan Women," by Euripides; a lecture on grass-roots organizing of political action; a celebration of Black History Month including soul-food night and a lecture on the art of the Benin Kingdom; the beginning of a series of exhibits, lectures and films on abstract art, "The Shock of the New"; winter carnival with Mardi Gras as the theme...
Critical success, a sense of responsibility to the Harvard-Radcliffe community and grass roots support enable Padan Aram to respond to both the need and desire for a publication highlighting the work of undergraduate writers...
Cambridge continued its leadership in the national grass-roots nuclear arms control movement, as the city council last night approved the first budget allocation for the city's disarmament commission and a city councillor successfully lobbied this week for a nuclear arms workshop at next week's National League of Cities conference...
...movement's members are mostly under 35, although an older fringe of over-50s is also active. Most of them vigorously reject the traditional German work ethic, sense of order, loyalty to family and security in favor of nebulous concepts of self-determination and grass-roots activism. They oppose nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. The alternatives are passionate about a clean and safe environment, about women's rights as well as those of oppressed minorities like immigrant workers and homosexuals. Says Carl Amery, 60, Bavarian writer, environmentalist and Green Party member: "The alternative movement is trying to recapture...