Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rent strikes and some imaginative dramatic stunts. He had garbage dumped on an alderman's driveway to make the point that collections were inadequate in the slums; ghetto rats were ceremoniously deposited on the steps of city hall. If the occasion requires, Alinsky's forces will not refrain from spreading rumors about an antagonist or indulging in something that comes very close to blackmail. "Our organizers," he says, "look for the wrong reasons to get the right things done." He has only contempt for liberals who appeal to the altruism of their opponents: "A liberal is the kind...
...Southie, for Southie, we sing our proud refrain...
...requirement that suspended students refrain from regular use of University facilities and from working within the University has drawn fire from students who charged that the requirement interferes with free exchange of ideas within the University...
...Hillel membership. Last year during the strike, for example, H-R Hillel supported many of the things that SDS and many other groups did: "... no contractual agreements or informal arrangements with the Department of Defense concerning ROTC.....; establishment of the Afro-American Studies Department with a meaningful concentration program...; refrain[ing] from evicting any tenants for expansion plans until an advisory committee has made full investigation ... of housing difficulties [from the resolutions of the Executive Board, April 16]." This fall, we too supported the Moratoria. Last March, however, when Hillel organized a coalition for Biafran relief work consisting of Afro...
Auden's early collaborator, Christopher Isherwood, recalls: "You could say to him: 'Please write me a double ballade on the virtues of a certain brand of toothpaste, which also contains at least ten anagrams on the names of well-known politicians, and of which the refrain is as follows . . .' Within 24 hours, your ballade would be ready-and it would be good...