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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bayard Rustin, one of the most distinguished of moderate black leaders. "Stop capitulating to the stupid demands of Negro students," Rustin pleaded. The students are "suffering from the shock of integration and are looking for an easy way out of their problems. The easy way out is to let them have black courses and their own dormitories and give them degrees. But what in hell are soul courses worth in the real world? No one gives a damn if you've taken soul courses. They want to know if you can do mathematics and write a correct sentence." Rustin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CAMPUS UPHEAVAL: AN END TO PATIENCE | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...Sweden, parade censors, outlawing banners "not in the interest of the working man," refused admittance to one reading "Crush Capitalism." However, they let another go by reading "Abolish Sweden." In divided Berlin, fog and rain kept most Berliners at home watching competing parades on TV. There were four in all, divided between West and East Berlin. In its typical out-of-step-with-the-times fashion, East Berlin held an old-fashioned military march-past. In Hamburg, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt was heckled by students and greeted with "Sieg Heil!" salutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHERE ARE THE TANKS OF YESTERYEAR? | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...would solve a lot of problems such as: (a) relieve trustees of a lot of uncompensated and unappreciated duties; (b) give the campus grass a chance to grow; and (c) let students rediscover the world of work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOULD SHUT IT DOWN | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

...what for SDS? Let them be elegant martyrs--win sympathy, but have as little impact on the power structure that keeps it all going as the Civil Rights workers had on the Southern power structure. Gregory K. Pilkington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 5/6/1969 | See Source »

...composes its frames, lights its sets for black-white contrast, and angles his camera on them stylizes the film as strikingly as Zero. But l'Atalante's dramatic structure progressively reveals the secrets of its very full characters. Who could imagine, for example, feeling deeply sympathetic toward the spirit, let alone the form, of Michel Simon (of Botudu)? Yet Vigo puts him in places and relations to other characters and to the camera, which bring us closer and closer to him. Finally the wife goes into his cabin which is filled with souvenirs of the seven seas. Simon's pride...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: Zero de Conduite and l' Atalante | 5/6/1969 | See Source »

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