Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week is that perhaps the situation is unstable. Perhaps the college communities which are the intellectual centers are also the most perceptive about the problems facing the U.S. and realize that without some changes now American society will deteriorate. When there is so much unrest on the college level and in the cities over racial problems, urban problems and the war in Viet Nam, perhaps it is time to act to alleviate this unrest rather than stifle its expression so that it will merely erupt later...
...settlement will be achieved, but the President meanwhile has been edging toward a reduction of U.S. forces in Viet Nam. The first pullback might take place this summer, even if there is no reciprocity on the other side. Whatever else it might accomplish, a reduction in the American troop level-perhaps including some combat units, for effect-would demonstrate to Hanoi that the South Vietnamese government is growing ever more capable of defending and unifying its territory...
...AVANT-GARDE spirit is in the most general sense a reaffirmation of the sanctity of irreverence. Precisely because its challenges are so dramatic on one level and yet so familiar on another, it draws strength from an inescapable tradition. Igor Stravinsky, almost certainly the century's greatest composer and one who moved independently of the orthodox avant-garde, more a less stated this tradition in his Poetics of Music...
...residents concerned with the city housing crisis, sent a rent control proposal to the City Council and the Mayor's City Manager's Committee on rent control yesterday. The Convention's proposal calls for a four year rollback of rents in most rented housing in the city to the level of January...
Other seminars--"The Practice of Politics" and "Color and Culture: The Study of Racial and Ethnic Relations"--are intended to help volunteers in fields such as education and civil rights. Creative writing, history of art, and American literature seminars, taught on a first-year graduate level, remain for those interested in the humanities. Any women is eligible to apply to these seminars. Applicants are accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. But most of the applicants are college graduates between thirty and fifty years old who want to rekindle old interests, having sent their children off to school...