Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen conceded that Viet Nam, like any war, had created "stresses-spiritual, moral and emotional." But, he added, "we are up against a decision of some kind. Do we quit? Do we retreat? Do we go ahead to a victory? Do we descalate?" His answer to the last was negative. "If we do, I think that we throw away whatever leverage we have," he said. "I learned long ago that it is the hit dog that yelps. They are being hit. They are being hurt, and they are beginning to yelp...
...toilets in the fields. Drinking water is allotted according to the number of bushels picked. The number is arbitrary depending upon the foreman's mood. The migrants live in tents, the regulars in long tin huts. By the time most of the children are 12 years old, they've quit school and work with their parents in the fields. Nobody earns more than $1.40 per hour picking grapes...
...interest of accurate reporting concerning the "surprisingly militant Harvard Undergraduate Council" and not myself, I feel it necessary to call your attention to the context in which I was quoted as saying that it was "time to quit asking for just another hour...
...completely in the Fall of 1966. What is a fair topic for discussion, it seems to me, is the larger question of who should be involved in making the decisions affecting the personal lives and freedoms of Harvard undergraduates. In this context, it is high time, indeed, that "we quit asking for just another hour." Craig Stewart Chairman Leverett House Committee
Craig Stewart '68 initiated the HUC's Monday night parietal discussion, stating it was time to "quit asking for just another hour." (The HUC last Fall negotiated a 4-hour parietal extension--8 p.m. to midnight on Friday. It was the first major change in parietal hours since...