Word: placed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again here I am more the universal undergraduate I than I would like to be--take refuge in a group. Harvard is unmanageable, and we all have to manage, so we drift or plunge into a group. Harvard the whole place becomes almost as much outside my perimeter as the world beyond it. Unlike some other groups in society, many of the ones at Harvard encourage imagination and creativity--some in fact depend on it for their existence as groups. But even then, it is a circumscribed kind of creativity and it leads to a circumscribed individuality...
...anti-Semitic remarks now being spewed out by Negroes are different in mood and intent from the casual insults of the past. One reason for the changing quality of black bigotry is the changed relationship of the Negro to the ghetto. Another is the shift that has taken place within the civil rights movement, which now excludes the Jews who helped create...
...same time, the black understands all too well that the Jew has not yet been totally accepted by white Christian society?which makes him a convenient scapegoat. After all, it is a role that he has played throughout history. "He is still insecure about his place in American society," suggests Psychiatrist Jack Morganstern of U.C.L.A. "You hit him and he's going to hesitate about hitting you back." Historian Joseph Boskin of the University of Southern California points out that the Jewish sense of liberalism and fair play sometimes borders on masochism. "If you have a fair-housing march through...
...strikes crippled several key exporters, including a shipbuilder and two automakers, Rootes and Jaguar. Worse still, a squabble over union representation threatened to cripple the country's steel industry. Amid all that acrimony, public debate raged over a new government White Paper on labor policy, fittingly titled "In Place of Strife." Issued by Barbara Castle, the fiery Minister of Employment and Productivity, the paper committed Harold Wilson's Labor Government to press for legislation that would give the government far more power to intervene in the nation's labor relations...
...land. The conflict between them and the naysaying, money-hungry men is the essential drama of Cock-A-Doodle Dandy -with Protestant O'Casey's pet hate, the Roman Catholic Church, as archvillain. In the end, the women are roughed up and driven away to find "a place where life resembles life more than it does here," and the play ends in a mood of sadness for the desolation of spirit that has fallen on the land. Yet for all his bitterness, O'Casey keeps his broad Irish sodbusters quirkily alive. Like his symbolic rooster, he weaves...