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...student attitudes in general. In 1964 we got mostly clean-cut students, but all this has really changed since then, 1967 was a highly responsible, committed year. '68 was curious, with much unrest. '69 was dreadful--it was the year of American violence. Fifteen people from Berkeley had a sit-down strike for shorter working hours. They took direct action, something we had not experienced previously and got no support from the community. 1970 was again a year of commitment, when violence was out, and people were hardworking...
Taking Turkey. Companies are also de-escalating the scale of their Christmas parties. A Chicago brokerage house spent $40,000 last year on a sit-down dinner for all staff members and their wives at the plush Hotel Ambassador East. This year the firm is settling for a buffet in a Loop restaurant, omitting wives and limiting the total outlay to $1,000. At Swank, Inc., a Massachusetts jewelry manufacturer, the 3,200 employees voted to skip their usual Christmas party and floor show and to accept 3,200 turkeys instead. The chiefs of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance...
...site the march was illegal. The question was then not whether there would be a bust, but when and how it would take place. Less than half an hour later, when the protestors encountered a police line ringing the nine-block area around the White House and began a sit-down in the street at one point in front of the line, the arrests began. After 20 minutes, 298 protestors--all those who refused to move to the sidewalks--were arrested. There was no feeling of exhiliration, no feeling of unity, as there had been in the Mayday protests last...
...when the bourgeoisie depart. Fortunately Bertucelli then propels language into gesture and diurnal life into dramatic text. Ramparts of Clay has but one vital incident. A company official travels a great distance to pay the quarriers of the village. The wages are arbitrarily halved; the men go on a sit-down strike. Soldiers are called in, ringing the strikers who cannot join their families a few hundred yards away. Food is denied them, then sleep, then peace. Still the men remain as immobile as desert rocks...
Dinner is anything but "sit-down." I don't think either of the guests of honor stayed in their seats for as long as five minutes at a time. Table-hopping like you've never seen. A woman walks over to my mother. "Lil tells me you are going to India tomorrow," she says...