Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break out between some 40 of the burly "jocks," who had set up a blockade to starve out the occupants of Low Library, and 40 youths, mainly Negroes, trying to send in food. The attackers were thrown back, causing one of the school's disillusioned football fans to note that "it's probably the first time Columbia has ever held a line." Kirk was also aware of rumors that militant Harlem residents were vowing to "burn Columbia down...
...shoulders had a slump," writes Mailer. "One did not achieve the languid grandeurs of that slouch in one generation-the grandsons of the first sons had best go through the best troughs in the best eating clubs at Harvard before anyone in the family could try for such elegant note." Ideologue Paul Goodman "looked like the sort of old con who had first gotten into trouble in the Y.M.C.A. and hadn't spoken to anyone since...
...evocative devices of the new journalists-or old novelists. But he suggests too much, and evokes too wildly. He looks into the faces of the U.S. marshals and reads in them the notion that Viet Nam is where the "American small town" gets its "kicks." And he fails to note as a sound journalist would, that there were U.S. marshals just like these who escorted James Meredith through crowds of rednecks at the University of Mississippi. He also has visions of future concentration camps in America (with Muzak)-a fantasy worthy of a propagandist or novelist, but hardly a reporter...
...view as malicious bias. In Eminent Victorians, Strachey provided four desecrating portraits of some of the era's most sacred cows. Admirers of the work are well reminded, as Cyril Connolly wrote, that "it might be described as the first book of the twenties. He struck the note of ridicule which the whole war-weary generation wanted to hear, using the weapon of Voltaire on the creators of the Red Cross and the Public School System. To the postwar young people it was like the light at the end of a tunnel...
...Harvard has some big guns of its own which should help end the season on a winning note for the Crimson. Attackman John Ince is leading the league in scoring with 22 points, and midfielder Bruce Regan is also on the "top scorers" list. Along with All-Ivy Kilkowski, All-Ivy midfielders Marty Cain and Captain Tom Nicosia are in good shape for the trip to New Haven...