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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Technical Stopover. Still, the generally excellent response to the U.S. appeal was perhaps best attested by the increasingly defensive tone of Peking and Hanoi. Red China's party paper Jenmin Jih Pao was soon wailing about "well-intentioned people" whom the U.S. campaign had led astray, asking in foot...
Some of what they say is both dusty with age and unthoughtful: apocalyptic fears about fascism in the Movement ("It is no secret that the leadership of the more militant groups is authoritarian."): short-sighted and tired admonitions about legislation producing hate ("Title II effectively shoves the Negro down the...
One March morning in 1900, a small boy crouched along the bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever...
He sighted as "valid concerns" -- in addition to civil rights -- a shortage of able instructors, absence of attention to the individual's role in the university, and "passivity that can permit mass-produced forms to mold our higher tastes."
The Herald praised Johnson's action as "intelligent and enlightened" and "practical and far-sighted". But the University's acting chaplain, the Rev. Jullus S. Scott Jr., said he felt the health service's action "patently documents the moral ambiguity of the university campus, the collapse of the tight ethical...