Word: lively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hour to Live. Many faculty members concurred. Outraged by what they saw as capitulation to brute force, they refused by an overwhelming vote to go along with the administration's peace pact. Said Historian Clinton Rossiter: "If the ship goes down, I'll go with it, as long as it represents reason and order. But if it's converted to threats and fear, I'll leave it and take a job as a night watchman in a bakery...
...which 6,000 whites threatened to stage their own demonstrations. Black leaders flatly refused to reopen talks with either administration or faculty, and student opinion seemed to be swinging to their side. In a wild eruption of demagoguery, Black Senior Tom Jones shouted: "Cornell has only one hour to live!" In the past, he cried, "it's been the blacks who did all the dying. Now's the time when the pigs are going to die. James Perkins is going to be dealt with. The faculty is going to be dealt with...
...wipe the slate clean." Historian Rossiter attributed his own change of heart in part to Perkins' appeals. "There was pressure," he explained, sounding slightly brainwashed. "But it was the only thing we could do to preserve this university as a place of reason. I can live with ferment but not with violence...
Booming and Banging. The only pressure the Senators are feeling these days is trying to live up to the handy die-turns of "No. 9," as they reverently refer to Williams. Brinkman, who hit a pathetic .187 last year, keeps reminding himself to "meet the ball, meet the ball." In the season's opener he did, getting two hits. "I think that's significant as hell," says Williams. "Why? Because Brinkman thinks it is, that's why." "No. 9 told me to get more hip in my swing," says Casanova, recalling the game in which he swiveled...
...pessimistic statement on the meaningless of human existence. There is too much beauty in the film to be able to come away with a feeling of total despair. In Godard's words, "the cinema, by forcing reality to unfold itself, reminds us that we must attempt to live...