Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a signed treaty. But since signed treaties have not always prevented war-why do all countries who have peace treaties with their neighbors still guard their borders?-borders also mean something. What we ask our friends is, to my mind, a very simple thing: tell Nasser and Hussein, sit down with the Israelis, negotiate peace with them. For 20 years, we have tried everything. Now it is your responsibility, not the Soviet Union, not the United States, not France, not England. Mr. Nasser, it is your responsibility. You are responsible for the war. You must take the responsibility...
More than 100 dissidents from Enfield College of Technology staged a sit-down outside the London borough's civic center to protest a town-council decision to evict a band of gypsies from their caravan site. They were joined by Bernadette Devlin, 22, Britain's angry young Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, who devoured soft ice cream and spouted hard politics. The peppery lass harangued the crowd for about ten minutes, declaring: "If the citizens of England allow the gypsies to be evicted without protest, they cannot go to church and say 'I love my brother...
...families. When the press names student leaders, for example, some fathers receive hate mail, lose business orders or feel subtle disapproval by employers. Some fathers are also public officials, an extra burden. The presence of the son of Air Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans Jr., at the recent Harvard sit-in, for instance, was widely noted in press accounts. Like other prominent men in this situation, Seamans refuses to discuss the matter. Equally upset are the parents of some first-generation college students, including poor Negroes, who are baffled when their children seem to reject the grail - a middle-class...
...receive explicit endorsement for their activism. "I'm quite certain that if I were 23 or 24, I'd be out there with the students," says Novelist Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman's Agreement), whose son was among the 42 rebels expelled after last winter's sit-in at the University of Chicago. Using newspaper advertisements, Mrs. Hobson is helping to conduct a parental protest campaign against the expulsions, which she denounces as "overkill" in reaction to a nonviolent dissent...
...young man who, among other things, affixed a list of demands to Harvard President Nathan Pusey's front door. Such hard-line methods have increasingly disturbed even the most admiring parents. Says Edmund W. Pugh Jr., a Weyerhaeuser Co. executive whose son was suspended from Stanford after a sit-in: "We have a great feeling of compassion toward David as his idealism clashes with organized society. But I don't approve of their tactics. There is a proper way to express dissent: through the spoken and written word." Dr. Maurice Osborne Jr., past president of the American College...