Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences defined as "unacceptable" behavior, violence against a member or guest of the University; deliberate interference with academic freedom and freedom of speech; theft or willful destruction of property; forcible interference with the freedom of movement of members and guests of the University; and obstruction of the normal processes and activities essential to the functions of the University community...
While the Weathermen's demonstrations caused Governor Richard Ogilvie to mobilize 2,600 National Guardsmen, neither the demonstrators nor the efforts of less militant S.D.S. groups succeeded in disrupting the trial. Members of Revolutionary Youth Movement II, one of the more moderate of the S.D.S. factions, found themselves outnumbered when they attempted to "take over" Cook County Criminal Court Building. They had to content themselves with predictable speeches to a generally indifferent audience before heeding police instructions to move on. Even the elements seemed to be against the Weathermen. A downpour washed out another attempt to hold a rally...
...movement is strongest in the highly populated industrial areas," says Lawyer George R. Sprague, 31, director of the state's conservation service. "People there are desperate to preserve green areas so they don't have to drive all the way to the Berkshire hills to look at a tree. There is absolutely no doubt that the commissions are the galvanizing force behind most environmental legislation here." Pushed by the commissions, for example, Massachusetts recently enacted a law that permits a landowner to keep his property while selling the development rights to a town, city or charitable organization, thus...
Yankee Bargain. In 1960, the movement began to cross Massachusetts' borders, helped immeasurably by an implicit appeal to regional traditions. For one, the basic unit of government in New England is the town, and commissions fit easily into the scheme of town meetings. For another, given state and federal matching funds, the local governments were able to buy open land by putting up as little as 25% of the money. No Yankee could resist such a bargain...
...year of decision for many masters of the modern movement. At the cafés of Montparnasse, the radicals of the new generation were discussing Africa's primitive sculpture and the great Cézanne memorial exhibition. It was the year Matisse exhibited his epochal Joie de Vivre and the year Picasso showed Braque his newly completed Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that launched Cubism...