Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both tributes seem mannered, calculated, polished for technical effect. But then, Dorothy Parker accepted whole the two-faced myth of her time: at her most maudlin, she always tried to speak through her head rather than directly from her heart. That accounts for both her limitation and her fascination...
Pusey's citation for Marjolin called the former French and European economic officer a "courageous patriot, thoughtful economist undeterred by competing national interests, he holds fast to the vision of a strong European community." Marolin, former secretary general of the Organization for European Economic Corporation, is expected to speak at the Alumni Exercises this afternoon...
...constituencies to which SDS now hopes to appeal are unlike those it worked with in its organizing activities during the first stage of the movement--they are primarily people involved in the system, rather than those frozen out of it. SDS must speak, Carl Davidson argues, primari Iy to the working class and "new working class," while continuing to recognize the problems of the underclass (the poor, disabled and chronically unemployed). The traditional always been a source of political power for radical movements. But the number of people in this class is declining relative to the new working class -- white...
Reformers also share common problems. Conservative faculty response forces delays in student plans at best, and entirely thwarts reform at worst. Equally frustrating for the activists is the conservatism and apathy among their fellow students. They usually cannot claim to speak for a majority of their classmates, nor even reflect a climate of opinion. Law and medical students are satisfied with the system which will make them successful lawyers and doctors. Design students, in a small school which inevitably molds them into an intimate community through studio work, are perhaps best able to achieve a consensus of opinion. So while...
...major forms of protest that have evolved this year, the summer organizing project is likely to have a far more extensive political effect than the draft resistance; it is much easier for the average student dissenter to speak against the war than to risk jail or permanent expatriation as the price of dissidence. Also, most of those who have pledged not to serve in this war have not limited themselves to this kind of protest -- and will actively support Vietnam Summer...