Word: gray
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depicted in The Lonely Crowd 19 years ago, Americans were all too well adjusted to the gray-flannel goals of "success." That is no longer so. David Riesman, who wrote the book with two colleagues and added its title to the American idiom, now finds that after two decades "the earlier tendency toward glib self-satisfaction" has been succeeded by "an atmosphere of what seems to me extravagant self-criticism...
...discouraged, the Tigers continued to harass the Harvard defense. They scored their second goal on a questionable penalty kick. The Crimson's Bob Gray was called for obstruction though he came up with the ball. Then, instead of giving the Tigers an indirect kick as they should have done on an obstruction, the officials awarded them a direct kick...
...Gray called the demonstration "obstructive at times" and said student and faculty members were present at the sit-in possibly to identify demonstrators. The observers were members of the Student-Faculty Advisory Group which was set up two weeks ago as a consulting body to the M. I. T. administration...
...administration is presently seeking ways of prosecuting non-M. I. T. demonstrators, who constitute 70-80 per cent of the NAC, for violating an earlier injunction barring obstructive demonstrations, Gray added...
During the afternoon sit-in several faculty members mingled with the crowd to observe the situation and talk individually with the protestors. At least one faculty member has been identified as participating in the sit-in. Gray said. Other faculty members reportedly also joined in the NAC group...