Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the scenes a few Young Democrats were becoming active in a new group called the Conference of Concerned Democrats. One of them was quoted as saying in a CRIMSON story at the time, "The most effective way to put pressure on a political person like Johnson is through the ballot. By defeating President Johnson in a series of primaries next Spring we hope to demonstrate Johnson's unpopularity -- which is tremendous -- as forcefully as possible...
...demonstration here were wrong. This spring he called the violence at Columbia a dissaster that has done irreparable damage to students and faculty. The ugliness has spread to Harvard, Ford thinks. "A spirit of better humor existed in Faculty discussion several years ago," he says. "Then, one person would not question the morality of another who held a different point of view...
...uses the words "pseudo-intellectual", "bearded, and "Negro" as derogatory expletives. He's the only person I've seen use the first term since George Wallace gave it its new meaning of small town paranoia. The author throws in that a drug user is bearded over twenty times in his book when giving no other physical description of the person or of any other people he mentions...
...small businesses, where they hope to define their own destiny. Many resent bureaucracy and bigness, and are turned off by corporate recruiters who speak of high salaries rather than the chance for creativity. Yet even within large institutions, concedes Sarah Lawrence's Sarah Loenberg, it is possible for a person to build "a smaller world by touching a few people...
...early years. One was reading Tom Swift at the age of seven ("It drove me crazy?I wanted to go to the moon myself; I was Tom"). The other was meeting a biology teacher who had "a whole garage full of tropical fish," and who "was the first person who got inside my brain and picked." Otherwise, Weiss was mainly untouched by social concerns or intellectual interests. Brian arrived at U.C.L.A. uncertain of what he wanted to be come. He majored in zoology, barely got passing grades for two years. "They were fact-piling courses, just rote." He turned...