Word: podium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just out of rage but out of utter contempt that I berated your marshmallow revolutionaries in the foulest terms I could. I was ready for any consequences but obviously, despite their numbers, they were only putting on a show in the hope that we on the podium would melt in fear. They were wrong because unlike some campus revolutionaries who hide out at Harvard we come from the real world. Another alternative would have been to engage us in meaningful dialogue, but of course, that's too bourgeois for these brave vanguard marshmallow revolutionaries...
...anti-war people can be accused of allowing their emotions to lead them to a stupid tactic which might damage the cause in the liberal sector. It would have been much better if the heckling had been controlled and if an anti-war speaker had made it to the podium to denounce the YAF and their cronies. But all this moral outrage about freedom of speech is totally unjustified, and I can only see it as an attack on radical dissent launched defensively by a guilty university...
Weinrub had chaired a rump meeting of about 60 persons who had gathered near the site of the colloquium an hour and a half before the scheduled talk. The meeting discussed several possible methods of making Land discuss the South Africa issue, ranging from a takeover of the podium to waiting for the question-and-answer period following his speech...
Zorza, booed as strongly as any other speaker by the crowd, left the podium after five minutes and Teodoru continued his harangue...
After silently bickering with Teodoru and McCarty for ten minutes about how much time he had, the man left the podium. By that time the meeting had been cancelled...