Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professors are probably not meant to provide absolutes. Unfortunately, they no longer provide even models, unless they happen to be political activists. The civil rights movement, the Kennedys, McCarthy?each of these sufficed for a time, until submerged by death or defeat. But Viet Nam continued, Chicago receded. Nixon won. The remaining target is the nearest at hand: the vexed, vulnerable university...
...that the use of police should be clearly repudiated and that steps should be taken to insure that it does not happen again...
...former football and track star impressed audiences with his expertise on urban affairs. To whites anxious about the city's racial divisions, Bradley declared: "Let me say to those of you who are uneasy-that black, brown or white or yellow or gray or magenta, I happen to be the most qualified candidate running...
...sounds like the scenario for a low-budget sci-fi flick, but thousands of Californians now actually believe that these horrible events will soon happen. For months, astrologers, fundamentalist preachers, telepathists, clairvoyants and assorted mystics have been predicting the imminent demise of California by a giant earthquake; many of them are convinced that doomsday will occur some time this month...
Some will argue that the Corporation will not vote itself out of existence even if an overwhelming majority of both students and faculty agree that it should. That seems to us unlikely, but were it to happen, further militant action would then be justified. The tactic of seizing a building is fully legitimated only after the ruling body has remained intransigent in the face of demands by an unambiguous majority of students and Faculty...