Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said why don't one of you come up and sit beside...
...assumption, which they invariably call their 'analysis,' that Western society, and especially American society, is rotten through and through." These "Walter Mittys of the left," declared Pusey, "...fancy themselves rising to positions of command atop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down." He blamed the Dow sit-in at Harvard last October on "some few" students who "managed not only to move the demonstration inside the building, but also to maintain there something very like a state of siege for more than six hours..." Pusey's "analysis" does justice to neither his students nor the facts...
...know Saigon and imagine what it might look like without its oppressive cocoon of sandbags, barricades, rolls of concertina wire and black exhaust soot (military traffic has created so much air pollution that I wonder why the VC don't wrap their weapons in oil cloth and sit tight for two or three years while emphysema kills off all the city people in Vietnam--a new aspect of the war of attrition theory). Concertina wire surrounds every building or monument of size. The children here are as familiar with it as To mSawyer was with white picket fences...
Local Constituencies. At Berkeley, the report proposed breaking up such "unmanageable" units as the freshman and sophomore years of the College of Letters and Science, which has some 6,600 students, into small colleges grouped around related disciplines, each with power to hire and promote teachers. Students would sit on the key committees within departments to help shape policy and would also help evaluate the teaching of their professors. These local "constituencies" would then feed into a more representative-and entirely reorganized-student government and faculty academic senate...
Like a pair of Oxford dons, an American father and son sit down for several hours of vigorous tape-recorded discussions of ethics. Occasionally the exchange gets rough ("I think what you said is outrageous." "Why, that's crazy! That's absurd"). But the vehemence only testifies to the fact that the men involved think and feel deeply. They respond to each other from positions of strength and conviction. Paul Weiss, 66, is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale, founder and longtime editor of the Review of Metaphysics; he ranks among the leading speculative philosophers...