Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that isn't the point. Whether or not Avatar is written well or not is not grounds for its being suppressed. Important issues never come conveniently packaged. Let's suppose that Avatar is the worst written of the underground newspapers (which it is not). Who is to say that tomorrow some Cambridge magnate might not decide that the CRIMSON is offensive and badly written. The parallel is admittedly a bad one because Harvard University wields a big stick in town and the local officials wouldn't want to tangle with Harvard Law professors over the issue. The point is, however...
...jail or leave the country, or feign mental or physical sickness, pretend to have "got religion" and go to the Divinity School, or really put one over on them and promise to be teachers, go to the Ed School, and then quit when the war is over. Let's be honest with ourselves, we've been bought, and bought cheap at that...
...bill of rights--the freedom of the press. And then all of a sudden these hippies, these malcontents find that the legitimate channels are clogged with petty political hog wash and pedantic restrictions. If every effort the anti-Establishment makes to express itself through legal channels is thwarted, let's not be surprised next time it resorts to illegality...
...many professors, do not believe that smoking marijuana is or should be a criminal offense. Even if they privately share their students' views, college officials acknowledge their obligation to help enforce existing laws-although Long Island police were notably angered by Stony Brook's refusal to let the agents formally enroll as students...
...final gesture, the narrator seems to turn up the house lights to reveal that his tale is only an illusion. As he sees it, writers are "liars" who continually try to hide the truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all lie together, or surely we shall all lie alone." Fortunately, Fuentes is a natural-born "liar." and frequently skillful and imaginative enough to rivet the attention. Even his windy sales pitches from the existential soapbox are not without charm and vitality. It is as if Fuentes were more interested in the pitch...