Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What makes all this especially disturbing is not, in the first instance, that protesters desire revolution. It is, rather, that they are naive about the nature and history of revolution, and what it takes to bring one about. It is obvious that any hope for revolution in the contemporary U.S. is absurd. Yet since some radicals talk and act as if revolution were possible, a few hints from history need to be considered...
...after rent control has been won, and a campaign has been waged for enforcement of housing codes. This strategy is patently infeasible. Once the "victory" of rent control is won, the bulk of neighborhood residents will likely rest on their dubious laurels, perhaps forever, at least until it becomes obvious that rent control has not helped the housing situation. By then it will be too late. Most of Cambridge's residents will have rested in their rent-controlled apartments, while, at a minimum, the 1200 to 1500 Inner Belt families have been forced to leave Cambridge for lack...
Most importantly, the rent control drive will mobilize a segment of the community whose interests have been too long ignored. Winning rent control will not be the end of the housing fight. It is obvious that the real answer to the problem lies in the construction of more low rent units, and this must be the next step...
...most obvious injustice of the scholarship reduction is that it discriminates against poor students. Economic sanctions are only effective against the minority of Harvard students who cannot finance their own education here. It is unacceptable, on the most elementary grounds of equity, that such discriminatory sanctions be applied...
Krister Stendahl, dean of the Faculty at the Divinity School, said yesterday that he has "the obvious feeling that the situation is completely outrageous." Stendahl, who signed the statement entitled "Declaration of Outrage and a Call to Action," said he was "gratified by the response given the petition, considering that it was circulated very little...