Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trends behind the major political and social upheavals in European history, and uses Trieste always as her reference point, example or microcosm. The book holds together nicely, and the subtitle seems very apt--the book feels like the photo album of a dedicated, lifelong traveler. Anyone with a real hunger for the European experience would probably enjoy a leisurely read of Fifty Years in Europe. Yet, like someone else's photo album, more than anything else the book inspires a desire to see Europe for yourself, to have your own adventures and create your own memories...
Four Stanford students go on a hunger strike to encourage the university to take a position in the debate...
...must do more" camp felt that PBHA couldn't just be an office for groups that wanted to go on hunger strikes, send students to Africa, and lay siege to Mass. Hall. PBHA had to actively endorse and encourage activism by taking stands on the battles that national student organizations like Students for a Democratic Society and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee were busy fighting...
...when taking over University buildings and going on hunger strikes was de rigeur for anyone who claimed to work for social change, Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) weathered some hefty criticism. Criticism usually came from two warring tribes: the people who thought PBHA didn't do enough, and the people who thought it did too much. The underlying issue was the appropriateness of political activism in PBHA or, Does social service demand political activity or exclude...
Here Hogue takes one too many liberties: "Beasts ferocious, with hunger will cross the rivers, the greater part of the battlefield will be against Histler. Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn, when the child of Germany observes nothing." But "Hister" or "Ister" is simply the Latin name for the Danube; all the second line says is "the greater part of the field will be against (or along) the Hister." But facts don't get in Hogue's way--just slap the "L" in to make "Histler" and you're cooking...