Word: rend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program for low-income housing in Cambridge and Boston came under strong attack from SDS, which argued that rend increases were not unintentional by-products of the University's presence in Cambridge, but rather part of a concerted action by the Universities, the Federal government, and the Cambridge City government to drive "working people" out of Cambridge and transform the City into a complex of defense-oriented industries. Because of this expansion cabal, SDS argued, any housing duced by the universities or local government would not be low-income but rather moderate and high-income, to house the technicians...
...political consequences of the conflict, not the Oedipally determined struggle of sons against fathers. The element of generational conflict, he contends, has led students to amorality in the choice of political means. Given a set of alternative paths--rational or irrational--for reaching a social goal, student movements will rend toward the most irrational and violent...
...Gaulle had actually made such a proposal?and the curious case caused a new outbreak of Anglo-French hostility (see box following page). True or false?or, more likely, a bit of each?the affair was bound to embarrass the President by highlighting the rifts that still rend Europe...
...divisions that rend the U.S., there is at least one point of agreement between blacks and whites, Democrats and Republicans, young and old. It is that Negroes are not really part of the mainstream of American enterprise, and that they should be brought into it through the classic means: ownership of business. Richard Nixon has called for a mixture of Government loans, tax incentives, private business aid and Negro self-help to create "black capitalism." Hubert Humphrey, urging all of that but with greater emphasis on Government aid, has stumped for "black entrepreneurship." He declares that the Negro...
...film's climax occurs when a member of the staff calls a meeting of the children to announce that a beloved cook has unexpectedly died. Some are stunned into silence, others burst out in self-destructive rage; two gins rend the air with mourning wails that continue into the night. The catharsis of tears signifies that the children, unable to separate reality and fantasy, now feel guilty for the death, as if they had willed it. In the film's most subtle and affecting sequence, Warrendale focuses on the grieving faces of children at the cook...