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Although most of the new activism has been directed toward particular campus issues, a growing impatience with the Vietnam War is its raison d'etre. Strong student commitment against the war effort has spiraled, increasing by more than one-third in the last year. In fact, student criticism and military escalation seem to be increasing in a dialectic manner...
...supposed that Boston would grow--both in population and employment--at a faster rate than it actually has. The Massachusetts Turnpike extension into Boston has already taken some of the pressure off downtown Boston's crowded Central Artery--a function which is the Inner Belt's raison d'etre...
...version of Peace, in refusing to meet the serious need for political irreverence, in refusing to put its draft card in the fire, becomes a varsity show where the jokes are unusually dirty. A comedy that vows to be faithful to Aristophanes automatically forswears plot and characterization; its whole raison d'etre is then to give the audience a political goose. This production keeps several of the original jokes, topical ca. 421 B.C., without explaining them; and it ignores, for a long stretch, the wealth of current political garbage to scream about. Without any political venom to make it look...
...line is as fitting an epitaph for those who have died as it is a raison d'etre for those who will continue to seek and find...
...young may already be ahead of that issue. By the existential act of rejecting cogito, ergo sum for sum, ergo sum, they have taken on, willy-nilly, a vast commitment toward a kindlier, more equitable society. The young often seem romantics in search of a cause, rebels without raison d'etre. Yet in many ways they are markedly saner, more unselfish, less hag-ridden than their elders...