Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cafritz purrs modestly: "With my little dinners I like to feel I am helping to save Western civilization." And Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had her motto for a lively party embroidered on a sofa pillow: "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here...
...Texan Hunt, a onetime third-string end at Southern Methodist, tried to buy a National Foot ball League franchise, got turned down-and decided to start a rival league. The American Football League is now a success, and Hunt needs just one thing to make his revenge complete: to sit with 100,000 other fans in Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum sometime next month and watch his Kansas City Chiefs beat the best team in the N.F.L. for the world championship of pro football...
...Bites. Police sealed the doors of the building after about 200 students and nonstudents had joined the sit-in. Vice Chancellor William Boyd offered to let conscientious objectors set up a table beside the recruiters, and Dean of Students Arleigh Williams said that no one would be arrested if all would move on. Both offers were ignored. Several hours later, Executive Vice Chancellor Earl F. Cheit, filling in for Heyns, who was attending meetings at Harvard and Princeton, summoned about 100 campus and local police. Armed with warrants, they arrested six nonstudents, including Savio...
...considerable progress in the years before the FSM by the regular tactics of normal campus politics, i.e., petitions, picketing, mass rallies, and participation in student council elections. I believe that the efforts to get the administration to drop the remaining objectionable regulations would have succeeded without the December 1964 sit-in or other forms of on-campus civil disobedience. A more moderate approach would not have divided the campus into bitterly hostile factions, and would not have produced an anti-Berkeley 'back-lash" among the electorate. Effective politics requires that one evaluate all consequences, not just immediate results. Seymour...
When Aaron Henry and Marion Wright spoke in a Law course on "Political and Civil Rights," Clark sat in a chair outside the lecture room, refusing to sit in on any lecture given by a Negro. But even Dave Clark's questions from outside the room have added to the potential for creative dialogue...