Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Levinson contends that political science lacks relevance to contemporary issues. "Just pick up any recent issue of the American Political Science Review. You'll be lucky to find even one article on Vietnam or civil rights. Who wants to read about the cultural patterns of some village in northern India?" Levinson said in a CRIMSON interview...
Pictures of Columbia's 12 top administrators were thumb-tacked on a large bulletin board in the office of Columbia's student newspaper, the Daily Spectator. A hand-lettered sign above them read, "Look at these men carefully, they may not be around much longer...
...Eminent Victorians belongs in the forefront of the Bloomsberries, and then substantiates the claim through 1,229 improbably fascinating pages. Strachey's is one of the legitimately original voices of the era, and it has suffered from a conspiracy of ear plugging. Though his work has always been read, especially in the U.S., his reputation after his death in 1932 was increasingly demeaned by historians, who dismissed his readability as shallowness, his hyperbole as untruthfulness, and his point of view as malicious bias. In Eminent Victorians, Strachey provided four desecrating portraits of some of the era's most...
...Cambridge I call home. My mother asks me, "Are you on the side of the law-breakers in this thing?" For ten minutes we exchange mother talk and revolutionary rhetoric. She points out that neither Ghandi nor Thoreau would have asked for amnesty. I admit I haven't read them. But Ghandi had no Ghandi to read and Thoreau hadn't read Thoreau. They had to reach their own conclusions and so will...
MONDAY, APRIL 29 -- The "Majority Coalition" (read: jocks) has cordoned off Low and are trying to starve the demonstrators out. We decide to break the blockade. We plan tactics on a blackboard and go, shaking hands with those staying behind as though we might not be back. There are 30 of us with three cartons of food. We march around Low, making our presence known, and spontaneously and at the wrong tactical place the blacks we have in front jump into the jock line. I go charging through the gap with my box of grapefruit and quickly become upon...