Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...added that the NAC would probably abide by the moratorium, but "organizationally will ignore it." "This is no way to end the war." he said. "You can get the whole Senate behind it and nothing will happen. You can even get Nixon reading a statemen condemning 'this and all wars' and it won't make any difference. This war is about real things going on; we need to positively support...
...happen that way. I wanted it to happen, but it still seemed an injustice. It's sad when Holy Cross loses a football game, because it means that they've just lived the whole week before for nothing. A three-man Holy Cross contingent sat next to me in the press box Saturday, and I really felt guilty that Harvard won. "I'm not hanging around that campus tonight," one of them said. "It'll be horrible there...
They specifically warned that this refusal must not happen on the fringes of society like that of the American hippies or Dutch Provos, because society can easily contain the marginal revolts of individuals. The only recourse was a frontal attack against society by relusing all legitimacy and doing the illegal. The focal point was direct action, violent and spectacular confrontation through personal insult, scandal, provocation, violent street demonstrations, and breaking of police lines. The aim was to ridicule...
...provocation of the students with such equivocation. Bewildered and angry with no precedent to guide them, they frantically applied stop-gap measures. Wooing the students one week and calling in the cops the next created a great tension at the faculty. The students never knew what was going to happen to them. Insecure and fearful, students banded together in a community-something almost unknown at a French university...
...groups took refuge in their ideological backrooms and there hesitantly tried to piece together future plans. As usual, their plans didn't match. The only consensus is that something will happen in the future, but not in the same...