Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not a similar circumstance. The anti-Gallo point of view has been fully aired and his widely known. One pamphlet hardly seems an equivalent representation of the pro-Gallo side. Gallo has not asked that it be allowed to have a speaker on campus or to picket the headquarters of any of the organizations opposing...
...example, most people believe America's farmworkers are migrants, following harvests from state to state. Chavez and his supporters have continually repeated this to the public. "Most farmworkers are members of families who scrape together marginal livings by following the crops around the U.S.," reads a pamphlet distributed by Chavez boycott organizers in Phoenix...
...WONDER what would happen if Percy Bysshe Shelley attended Harvard. Would he, as he did at Oxford, send to all professors copies of a pamphlet he wrote entitled "The Necessity of Atheism?" Would he begin the task, as he did in Ireland, of world reformation by organizing a "society of peace and love?" Would he distribute, as he did in Wales, a "Declaration of Rights" by sending up balloons and by enclosing it in bottles he cast into...
...Harvard, where he became one of the nation's most celebrated quarterbacks, at Harvard Business School, and on Wall Street as an investment banker. He finally returned home in 1972. He was not even aware of the residency requirement until his wife Mollie came across it in a pamphlet put out by the League of Women Voters...
Reading Lamont's essays grates against all the modern sensibilities. Samples from one year, 1973, range from an interview with Chile's president Salvador Allende to a humanist pamphlet titled "How to Be Happy--Though Married." Who is this latter-day Ben Franklin, anyway? Why is he trying to take a stance on every conceivable aspect of life in this world? How can anyone be "conversant," "critical," and "definitive" in more than the appointed intellectual niche? Corliss Lamont, yea even a Corliss Widener, who does he think...