Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this intended as a threat, although the situation is threatening. It is more in the nature of a manifesto, in the sense that I should like to present some facts about the condition of the radical left in this liberal university. This attempt is immediately in danger of being presumptuous in that, first of all, I am only one radical, and rather minor in relation to a large and complex movement, which I am only beginning to understand. Secondly, on the basis of my meager knowledge, I am presuming to tell those of you who more or less support...
Whether or not Dean Ford holds these views without reservation, most radicals think he does. It is therefore hardly surprising that we on the left should begin to view all parliamentary procedures and all respect for the civil rights of Dow recruiters and under-graduate drill teams as hypocritical to begin with, and in the end reactionary. For in fact you have told me precious little if you tell me you are for the right to recruit and the right to "prepare for the military" and also against the Vietnamese...
...almost left last year," he said, "but I like Harvard students, and I like Cambridge, and I like being near M.I.T., where Noam Chomsky...
Still, concert success has not left her visibly selfsatisfied, nor impatient with an "academic" music department. "I tasted all that while I was still in my teens," she says. "For artists going in the other direction, from study to performance, things like that can be meaningful. But finally I gave part of it up for serious study...
...Paine Hall temper-tantrum was the act, not of serious revolutionaries, but of naughty children trying to bully the rest of us--students and faculty, left and right...