Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most articulate liberals. The rationale is that the majority of Americans, the white and the relatively affluent, now crave a return to a kind of ordered normality that may in fact never again exist in traditional terms. How deep and long-lived this trend to the right will prove to be can only be guessed at. A real test will not come until the election is decided in November. But it poses a danger for the short run because it serves as an excuse to block reform-and unreasonable resistance to change can lead to still more turmoil...
...heroes of the European student rebels. Modern technocratic workers, whether they labor in Communist or capitalistic nations, he says, are too wrapped up in the system to turn on it-and increasingly, as student activists put out calls to the factory for a show of solidarity, they prove him right. Marcuse's answer is to wage revolution with small groups of intellectuals and students. But more than one campus commando has reached the same conclusion as Jürgen Horiemann, 26-year-old West German S.D.S. (Socialist Student League) leader. "We simply are not a power factor in society...
Manhattan Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann, 37, is an artist who believes that the female nude is a subject to which an artist can devote his full attention. To prove his thesis, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has put on view 23 ot Wesselmann's pictures dedicated to 'the Great American Nude." Accompanying them are five of the pristine assemblages of kitchen and/or bathroom objects that Wesselmann creates to evoke the "typical American home" in which the G.A.N. is presumably found...
...place in the hagiography of hip. As of now, few young poets feel the need to justify their work with critical commentary. George Amabile's response is typical: "I can't think of anything that wouldn't sound pompous or absurd." Such an attitude may not prove healthy for poetics, but it is good for poetry...
...founders, Lloyd Rowdin of MIT and Martin Meyerson of Harvard, modeled the Center after traditional research centers in other fields--with the fundamental view that you can do urban research the same way as other research. The analogy stemmed at least partly from a desire to prove "legitimate" a field of research which was not at the time entirely respectable...