Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-year-old strike of California's predominantly Mexican-American farm workers. For more than a year now, table grapes have been the object of a national boycott that has won the sympathy and support of many Americans ?and the ire of many others. The strike is widely known as la causa, which has come to represent not only a protest against working conditions among California grape pickers but the wider aspirations of the nation's Mexican-American minority as well. La causa's magnetic champion and the country's most prominent Mexican-American leader is Cesar Estrada Chavez...
Cesar Chavez has made the Chicano's cause well enough known to make that goal possible. While la huelga is in some respects a limited battle, it is also symbolic of the Mexican-American's quest for a full role in U.S. society. What happens to Chavez's farm workers will be an omen, for good or ill, of the Mexican-American's future. For the short term, Chavez's most tangible aspiration is to win the fight with the grape growers. If he can succeed in that difficult and uncertain battle, he will doubtless try to expand the movement...
...report acknowledged that larger social problems such as the Vietnam war and the condition of urban American were important factors leading to college disturbances. The Congressmen--two of whom spent some days at Harvard interviewing students. Faculty and Administrators--also voiced strong support for what has come to be known as "university restructuring," to increase the responsiveness of universities to student concerns. The report, which was released just before hearings on the Erlenborn bill began, probably helped to swing some Republican Congressmen on the Green subcommittee against the bill...
...then (this is our dark side), we are enamored of violence. It has been said that during the occupation of University Hall, several students, seething wit vioence, violently escorted (manhandled, etc.) several deans out of their offices. (The students were duly dismissed from Harvard, which is a university known far and wide for its abhorrence of violence). I could go on. During the campaign for president of the U. S. last summer, many students heckled candidates, including Hubert Humphrey (who eventually finished second) and George Wallace (who finished third...
...then a relatively recent addition to Dean Watson's mailing list. I was soon taken in hand by a mostachioed radical several years my elder, with whom I spent a curious, concentrated week canvassing the freshman dormitories for political talent. We weren't too successful, if the truth be known, finding most of my classmates had their minds on P.T. credits and Gen Ed Ahf and the girl next door in Nat Sci 5 lab. Harvard seemed to be a pretty shrewd head, always bending just enough this way or that, always holding out just enough personal and academic freedom...