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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THREE PLAYS, by Ed Bullins, offer perceptive vistas of black America...
...coalition potentially as broad as F.D.R.'s. He is doing so, moreover, without any disavowal of the libertarian lodestar that led him into politics in the first place. "The nation needs to be calmed and unified," he says. "It needs steady social progress with a minimum of disorder. I offer leadership based not just on idealism but on a pragmatic approach to government. I offer the capacity to blend the different factors of American life into a national mosaic...
...Most of the Jews coming into Israel these days are from Arab lands and are not easily assimilated among educated Jews from Europe, who are concerned that the country may take on a Levantine rather than a Western character. Labor Minister Yigal Allon believes, however, that Israel can still offer Jews the "purposeful life" of a pioneer at a time when more affluent Western societies seem to "lack a social motive." Despite the uncertainty of their future, the Israelis themselves still find advantage in that life and intend to show the world this week that they have the spirit...
Sudden Power. Last week's demonstration began quietly enough, with some 400 students gathering on the campus plaza. University officials promptly offered to meet with them to consider their demands that the gym be abandoned, as well as student objections to the university's ties with the Institute for Defense Analysis, a Washington "thinktank" that conducts military-related research for the Federal Government. But the students, carried away by their own heady sense of sudden power, shouted down the university's offer and marched to Morningside Park, where they tore down a fence at the gymnasium excavation...
...most important question on this campus seems to be not one about social responsibility or pay, but "will I be able to do something which is a challenge, an intellectual exercise, something creative and useful?" No matter what business offers a man in terms of salary or benefits, if it can't offer him a personal challenge and the freedom of action to accept and master this challenge within the frame-work of his job, he is not going to go into business as a career. If the business community really wishes to attract the best young men from...