Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jones" does not know what is happening because he sees it as an isolated problem of a few "trouble-makers"; his widest vision may grasp an idea of some sinister underground conspiracy. An uncanny international cooperation has formed at the LSE, with veterans of Alabama, the anti-apartheid movement, Pakistani politics, and Greek student strikes working easily with British students educated by the Aldermaston marches and left university politics. But the "conspiracy" is the result of a universal experience: the established authorities are making terrible mistakes...
...idea of the program was originally David Henry's, former Director of Harvard's Admissions Office, and in the six years of its existence, ASPAU has found financing for 1,300 Africans from 33 nations and sent them to 232 American universities...
...pebble of innocence without a tongue-wag of self-protective deviousness in his nature. He ran away, he tells his lawyer and the court, because one day the mud-and-blood bath of battle got to be too much for him. He doesn't have the foggiest idea if he ever intended coming back to his outfit. All he knows is that he desperately wanted to go home. It is an affecting, truthful defense, but the law gives Hamp's military judges no option; he dies before a firing squad...
Vanessa's way of working is dead opposite to Lynn's. Where Lynn begins with imitation and ends with insight, Vanessa begins with an idea of the character and ends with an illustration of that idea in gestures. Her roles are thought out logically and constructed move by move. She is a much more intellectual actress than Lynn, but no less imaginative and emotional for all that. If anything, she is even more passionately devoted to her profession. "I give myself to my parts as to a lover," she explains. "It is the only...
...time to time lashed out at the notion of a white-dominated newspaper for Negroes. As one SNCC staffer put it, "Man, it's just one more white man tryin' to tell me what to think." SNCC seriously discussed at one point organizing a boycott of the Courier. The idea apparently was forgotten by the time of last year's elections, when SNCC instead bought advertising space for the Lowndes Co. Freedom Organization...