Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON is the voice of this student body, how can the premeditated slaughter of students, gathered together in non-violent demonstration, occur without raising instant editorial comment and condemnation? Is it because "it can't happen here" where students and administration work at developing a dialogue "in an atmosphere of mutual respect?" Columbia, Chicago and numerous recent events tell us that it can happen here: the Harvard community has no guaranteed immunity to the forces of reaction. Slaughter of students is a world-wide phenomenon no longer unknown within our own boundaries...
...level conferences on both the Vietnam war and the Detroit riots. The idea that Fortas and Johnson carefully probed Constitutional questions of the separation of powers before engaging in their consultations is discredited by a comment the Times attributed to one of the President's aides: "It doesn't occur to Johnson not to call on Fortas just because he's on the Supreme Court...
...soldier should have posed some questions which simply did not occur to him. Must every Israeli feel his situation so strongly? Must this tension between fear and security, despair and hope, this constant viewing of life in terms of black and white, be so pervasive...
...knows how thalidomide actually works inside the human system, it is impossible to forge a link between the drug and a child's malformation. Lenz answered that thalidomide has been shown to cause phocomelia in rhesus and other monkey species in which the condition does not occur naturally. For doctors to seek comparable proof in man would be at least unethical and in most countries illegal. Said Lenz: "You are demanding a kind of scientific perfectionism that is not applicable to medicine. Despite the statistical methods we are forced to use, one can still conclude that there...
...people leave their own bodies and enter at will any one of a stockpile of more attractive bodies. It is a ludicrous extension of the current preoccupation with heart and other body-part replacements, and Vonnegut uses it to poke fun at the idea that social and emotional problems occur only because humanity is locked in decaying protoplasmic prisons. The author is even more pointed in his attack on the notion that if all humans are not born equal, the good society will equalize them. Consequently, in his story Harrison Bergeron, a "Handicapper General" cripples people mentally and physically...