Word: set
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked up suddenly, and saw Bowie's secretary advancing towards us with a tray of four cups of coffee, and big bowls with cream and sugar. She set the tray down on the table we were clustered around and slipped out quietly. The porcelain was hand painted, and with two spoonful of sugar, it was the best coffee I had ever tasted. One of them asked whether I'd like cream, Dick, and I realized that suddenly we were Bob, Ray, Joe, and Dick. I was having coffee with very important people, so I, too, was a very important person...
...happened to our generation is that we never got what we wanted. We've only been led to believe that we have. Capitalist production has created desires which it has, for better or for worse, satisfied. In the same process, however, the things we really wanted, and needed, were set just above our reach. They were either labeled fantasy and psychosis or were put on TV so that we could receive the pleasure vicariously...
Optimistically, Americans have contrived a new notion- that of political development- which assumes that in the realm of economics there is a clear direction, and a set of norms, measurements, and strategies for moving in that direction. This notion rests on the shallowest reading of history and corresponds to a belief that the curses honors of advancing societies must be that of the United States; the criteria adopted by political scientists are all a transfer of American standards...
...Negro students were granted equal rights and authority with Faculty on the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies. Professor Stewart rightly remarks that this decision of the Faculty last April (a decision which ignored the guidelines of the Rosovsky Report) was made under a "peculiar set of circumstances." But he is mistaken as to the substance of those "peculiar circumstances...
Justice Ammi R. Cutter of the Supreme Judicial Court set Nov. 3 for a hearing date on the petition...