Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maximize public pressure to end the war by encouraging a broad cross-section of Americans to work against the war." It will expand by one day per month: is focused on ending the war with related issues (the draft, militarism, inflation) being brought in by participation on the local level; and encourages activities in which those unable to take the entire day off can participate. It calls its activities a "new polities" campaign-broad based participation, door-to-door canvassing, and small group contact...
...representative, Frank Ackerman, denounced the Project as "raising the social sciences to the level of U.S. imperialism. The Project will not involve pure research but will further the purposes of American imperialism. We will attack the project in any form...
...exactly a sissy's sport, but football is admittedly more civilized than whatever game Rutgers and Princeton played 100 years ago. It's certainly more fun to watch now that it's no longer on the Coliseum gladiator level, and today thousands of Ivy League fans will expect entertainment as the season opens once again. All eight teams are playing non-league opponents, but that's all right. Only Columbia can be considered to have an excellent chance of losing. Most should...
...There's an awful lot of popular interest in low-level analogies with the animal world," growled Margaret Mead the other day. Exactly so. Konrad Lorenz's speculations about aggression were the relatively cautious summation of a lifetime's research, but he threw open the window to a swarm of parasites who in the years since have all but sucked dry the modern study of animal behavior...
Reprisals and Regicides. Has our age been harsher and more painstaking in its corrective reprisals than others that have seen fanatically fought wars and revolutions?' At the level of immediate outrage and intent, yes; in ultimate results, no. Taking a long view, FitzGibbon compares the performance of the Allied occupying powers with those of the English after the Stuart Restoration, Americans after Appomattox, and the European victors of Waterloo. In each case national character and historical tradition shaped policy. In 1660 the English Crown granted general amnesty, except for the clergymen, to all but a few of the Cromwellian...