Word: happens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been severely and properly punished-suddenly became acceptable. The victims of this abuse found solace in the thought that it could have been worse; and they were joined in this by their colleagues, who found further comfort in the hope or assumption that this kind of thing could not happen to them. (In these matters, the faculty have a great deal to learn from the student militants, who for all their factionalism, have a keener sense of solidarity; hence the universal cry for amnesty and the frequent demand for collective responsibility. We have all the more reason to be grateful...
...encyclopedia is already on sale now, of course, and the interviewer's little deception was only one minor incident in a major war Collier's wages against its own employees. Several complained to me that they had been cheated out of their wages; it didn't happen to me, but then I didn't stay around long enough to get paid-anyway, I didn't sell any encyclopedias...
...make any concessions, least of all the establishment (or whatever term you radicals call it by) and they are not going to fail to suppress any threats that affect them vitally. Suppose than that your kind of terrorism had certain results which did affect the ruling class. What would happen? They would retaliate and upon the group that is most vulnerable and yet most crucial to the struggle-the people Mr. Hyland has in mind but never mentions. And once you have effectively threatened the poor peasant and working class and reduced them to passive defense, you can never again...
...never think this could happen," one man said. "But it could happen to me." One lady, Miss Irenic Burns, had come over from South Cove where she said she was faced with a similar situation. "This was what the Jews did to the Arabs," she said. She looked out to the Street, "All those cops for two old ladies." The crowd appeared to resent the police, but the police did not seem to be enjoying their job. One man pointed out that they were only doing a task they hated. If they refused to do it, they could be fired...
...Albert has conceptions of the theater for which our old friend The Proposition may not be the best vehicle. With Albert directing a program of psychic betterment, with the cast believing in the show, and with the new dynamic of improvisational theater to involve the audience, something big should happen...