Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questions were asked?but in new ways that invited honest answers, fresh opinions, dissenting views. The questioning began at field level two months ago, funneled steadily upward and inward to commanders and moved from there to the corridors of Washington. It constituted one of the most intensive policy reviews ever conducted inside the Federal Government, and the subject, of course, was Viet Nam. Last week the results reached the desk of the man who ordered the inquiry, Richard Nixon, who must ultimately weigh the choices and choose his course for extricating the nation from the longest war in its history...
...HOUSING shortage facing Cambridge has grown to a critical level. Rapidly the city is becoming a middle and upper class area, with workers being forced out because they cannot afford the skyrocketing rents...
...rents in all apartments except single family dwellings and two an three family buildings back to their January 1, 1968 level and freeze them their for four years...
...other hand, radicals can look to contemporary moral thinkers of various hues--Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Albert Camus, Leroi Jones--who level their sights at the attitudes rather than the content of the American historical picture, and explode the necessity as well as the desirability of such American traits as self-advancement, money-mania, and social indifference. Their complaints, taken at the aesthetic and philosophical levels, reach us through a different tradition than the complaints of historians, but they are more powerful for that fact, and, indeed, for their stark prescience, seem to need none of their Hegelian...
...this has important implications for people at universities in this country. If a full-fledged radical critique is to develop in America, it is essential that a certain level of conventional liberal civil liberties be preserved. Such a critique cannot develop in an atmosphere of intense repression. And since the universities are the most strategic center for the development of a radical program, the integrity of the liberal university must be maintained...