Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perspective helps, student violence has been a recurrent problem throughout history. The college years are those of peak physical energy, a search for identity, freedom and power?all reasons to lash out at frustrating restrictions. Medieval students often scorned learning in favor of brawling and thieving; early American collegians were equally unruly. In 1825, the University of Virginia faculty requested police protection against "personal danger" from belligerent students. Professors at other 19th century U.S. campuses were shouted down, pelted with refuse. Not only have students frequently rioted against one another; they have also started quite a few revolutions...
Ploy No. 5: "I don't care what happens to me." Feuer believes that student movements have a morbid need for what the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini called "the touchstone of a martyr." The suicide rate in student movements has been conspicuously high. In Japan, at a peak of student unrest, suicide (the "ultimate test of one's sincerity," the ultimate thwarting revenge on Father) became the No. 1 cause of death among those under...
...raised the cost of borrowing to that level-the fourth rise in little more than three months. The prime rate, the interest that banks charge their best corporate customers, went up a full i% from the 7% rate set only last January. Although the new rate was a historic peak, neither businessmen nor bankers seemed much impressed...
...with a small car called the Cardinal, but withdrew it within a few months of production because of fears that the market would not then support a new line. By 1966, however, it was clear that U.S. compacts were losing considerable ground to imports. The Falcon, which reached a peak of 493,000 sales in 1961, was down to 163,000 that year-and to even less in 1967. At a meeting of Ford's new-products group in the "Glass House," the company's Dearborn headquarters, lacocca decided that it was time to move. Chairman Henry Ford...
...most exciting. It opens with movies of Cambridge projected on the white backdrop. First is a film of Hilles Library, speeded up many, many times so that the people in it tear up and down the stairs with greater energy and bustle than the Keystone cops at their peak. This sequence gives way to one filmed outside Memorial Hall, also speeded up many times. The dancers than come on stage, their movements exaggerated and fast. The music continues loud and rapid, and the audience is suddenly caught up in this frenzied, hell-bent, crash-course ritual we all know...