Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Undergraduate Council agreed last night to initiate action reducing the status of ROTC units at Harvard to the level of an undergraduate club...
...gang is what makes life bearable. "'...we're all really the same person.'" Paul said, "'We're just four parts of the one...we make up together The Mates.'" The boys composing or recording seem at one level to be the boys just larking about, but larking with an infinite devotion to their games, and a sure sense of which part of the playing to preserve for others...
...momentary transcendence, a feeling of liberation. But the Beatles gave us more than that. The Beatles created the first music that reached almost all while teenagers. They were our communion. They provided the sense of unity that created the rock and roll army. The Beatles reached everyone on whatever level they were. They were kids themselves. So they were ours and they were us. A certain pride in being young--they were the first real bloom of the sub-culture of youth--a sense of community, a feeling of joy and liberation. All were, in part, the gift...
...biggest adjustment, though, will be on the level of the individual. Now when the doctor practices his medicine, he does it for Israel. The bus driver drives his bus and the street vendor sells his oranges, for Israel. Israeli life requires that the first commitment be to the state. Yet one must ask what type of nation Israelis will produce when they begin to act for themselves...
...Rudd is not the spokesman of the Columbia revolt or its ideologue. He is the leader (like field commander) of the Columbia students who do already understand the issues Rudd generalizes about. And these intricate issues, such as the interests of Columbia's high-level decisionmakers, are easier to talk about when reduced into less painfully complex phrases...