Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Levinson the stages of the life cycle, and the transition periods which link the major eras, fall in the following definite pattern (allowing for a few years spread in each case to account for individual variation...
This counter-revolution, this quest to turn the clock back to the days before 1969 and preferably before 1960, is not some great conspiracy, orchestrated in University Hall. Rather, an unstated philosophy--clamp down on the students--has spread surreptitiously throughout the ranks of those who run this university, and what appear to be isolated attempts to regain control of this or that aspect of student life are in fact part of a larger pattern involving the whole University...
...Israeli security agents and swarms of U.S. Secret Service men and police who manned sniper posts, rode shotgun in helicopters and stood at alert on fireboats. Yet the Premier's presence transcended all such hindrances. There was an incantatory tone to his cadenced, ritualistic speeches; when he spread his arms with open palms, the gesture seemed almost papal...
...most awesome aspects of Biko's career is the extent to which he managed to spread the Black Consciousness movement, despite government efforts to silence him. They placed a banning order on him, which restricted his movements, his writing, and his public speaking. As Biko once told Woods, if the government could not catch him acting illegally, it would encircle him so that it was almost impossible for him to avoid breaking the law. But Woods reports that Biko still moved fairly freely around the country, and often held illegal meetings at his home in King Williams Town...
Joan B. Breen '80, an IRC member, emphasized that the rumors "were completely wrong. They were spread about competent, hard-working women." There is a general atmosphere of "subtle sexism" that the organization must confront, Breen added...