Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About avocados and hats and polities and screwing and everything else. The choices always are the same, yet we keep on making the same old decisions, somehow convincing ourselves that one day some incredibly right decision will take us a step closer to salvation, a rung higher on that ladder to heaven. And how do we keep at it? What do we call that force that pulls us on? Chutzpah...
Last spring Procaccino adroitly capitalized on the revolt by Negro militants that temporarily caused tuition free City College to close. To many whites of modest means, who regard the school as an indispensable social-economic ladder, the Negro demands for wholesale admission of blacks meant lowered academic standards and less room for whites. City College Alumnus Mario Procaccino brought a court suit to compel the city to reopen the institution. It put him in the favorable position of using respectable means to stand up to the radicals. He scored points across the board with this bit of alliterative class propaganda...
...there is no room at the top for all the Joe Lamptons and Jimmy Porters, those angry young men from the working class, a black man in Britain can't even get his foot on the bottom rung of the ladder. Two Gentlemen Sharing presents a tidy essay on John Bull and Jim Crow by telling the somewhat unlikely tale of a West Indian who desperately wants entry into the Establishment and a young ad man who is struggling...
...Northeastern can offer little depth behind their limited quality, and it is here that the Crimson should pull away. At least one of McCurdy's substandard performers should score among the top eight finishers, and senior Erik Roth can be counted upon to challenge anyone on the Husky ladder...
Four of Harvard's top performers-Roy Shaw, Keith Colburn, Dave Pottetti and Bobby Seals-will be competing in substandard physical condition, and McCurdy might have to rely heavily on the middle of his ladder, which usually provides "overkill" depth, to pull out a victory...