Word: revolutionize
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The conceptual revolution that is just now sweeping into the clinic began in the 1960s, when researchers started to realize that cancer is a disease of DNA, the master molecule that encodes the genetic script of life. One of DNA's most important jobs is to govern cell division, the...
"They sought out confrontation because theythought [it] would lead to revolution," Rainessays. "There is no group on campus anymore whosepurpose is to seek confrontation."
"People didn't talk in terms of change then,"says former AAAAS President Leslie F. Griffin Jr.'70. "People talked in terms of revolution, andthey really meant it."
Students for a Democratic Society's (SDS)motive in taking over University Hall was tocreate a catalyst for revolution, says Frank D.Raines '71, who was chair of the Student-FacultyAdvisory Committee. But he says this is not themotive for today's protests.
Nevertheless, the national media has already recognized Third Millennium and other pretenders to the generational mantle with magazine covers and reams of newsprint. The group's glitzy kick-off press conference last July marked a "new generation's arrival," gushed the Dallas Morning News. A new Kennedy (RFK's son...