Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Through flashbacks to the fire-bombing of Dresden in World War II, this agonizing, outrageous, funny and profoundly rueful fable tries to say something about the timeless nature of human cruelty and self-protective indifference...
...trying to hide evidence of various actions, various bad actions, such as expansion into surrounding urban areas, or research for the War Department (somehow the old name seems more appropriate), or connections with the CIA. Such actions are wrong; they are tantamount to murder. And just as any self-respecting citizen would act to prevent a murder, we students must act to prevent the university from committing murder in a more discreet, more scholarly fashion. If this involves shutting down the university...
...joining the S.D.S. He has campaigned energetically against half a dozen repressive bills pending in Congress. "In all truth," he told a congressional committee, "many academic institutions have brought much of it on themselves. They have not always responded to the clear need of any viable institution for constant self-examination and self-renewal. In attempting to serve many masters?Government and industry among them?they have tended to serve none of them well...
...Quero, 63, how he was feeling, he replied: "These shoes are killing me." With good reason. For the past 30 years Cortés has been shoeless, padding around in carpet slippers in an upstairs room of his house in Mijas, above the seaport of Málaga. His self-imposed imprisonment ended last week when Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered an amnesty for all survivors of the losing Republican side in the Spanish Civil War of three decades...
Familiar Trap. At Cornell last week, protesters armed themselves for "self-protection" and caused a grave crisis (see following story). Arsonists of unknown affiliation harassed New York University and Columbia. Harvard was still uneasy. There was a "mill-in" at one building, and neo-Luddite members of the Students for a Democratic Society destroyed an architect's model of projected university buildings because they oppose Harvard's expansion plans...