Word: mario
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students' demands, but the students are unlikely to get anywhere until they dissociate themselves from the so-called non-students on campus. The most sympathetic faculty members cannot countenance the presence of these "agitators" in campos organizations; other adult Californians refuse to believe that people like Mrs. Lieberman and Mario Savio, a leader in the 1964 Free Speech Movement, have any right at all to set foot on Sproul Plaza...
...young no longer feel that they are merely preparing for life; they are living it. "Black Power now!" cries Stokely Carmichael. "Action now!" demands Mario Savio. "Drop out now!" urges Timothy Leary. As Buell Gallagher, president of the City College of New York, sees it: "This generation has no Utopia. Its idea is the Happening. Let it be concrete, let it be vivid, let it be personal. Let it be now!" With its sense of immediacy, the Now Generation couples a sense of values that is curiously compelling. It esteems inventiveness, eloquence, honesty, elegance and good looks-all qualities personified...
...Mario Savio, not for being a demonstrating beatnik, but for putting Berkeley...
...going on, straining to hear professors over the noise of the amplified strike pleas echoing through the campus, and being called obscene names by hippies when I tried to buy a sandwich at the cafeteria, I decided that this would be a nicer place to get an education if Mario Savio would stop bugging us. Has anybody thought of drafting...
...Mario Savio, who had been neatly isolated by Heyns, nevertheless claimed victory. Crying "student power," he contended that the regents could have taken reprisals, but were "too damn scared." Now, students and labor, symbolized by the assistants union, had been united, and they could close down "the great and profitable university" if it did not "concede to our demands." Actually, the new fuss had alerted most of Berkeley to the fact that the freedom of students and faculty-and the intellectual luster of the entire university-would certainly suffer unless order is maintained. The nonstudent thrill seekers had unwittingly strengthened...