Word: springing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST SPRING, as Columbia University was exploding across the front pages of the nation's newspapers, students at Wellesley College were quietiy instituting their own small revolution...
...result, the college's black students were not in a conciliatory mood when they confronted Wellesley's administration last spring. The confrontation arose over acceptances for the incoming freshman class that had just been sent out. Included among the 500 girls accepted were 19 blacks. But of the 19, only seven chose to come to Wellesley...
...Board, whose procedural defects are enough in themselves to make severe punishment inadvisable. It's no secret that the case-by-case routine of the board is better suited to benevolent chiding of academic sluggards and habitual Coop thieves than to harshly punishing large groups of political demonstrators. Last Spring the Ad Board considered revising its procedures--especially for obstructive demonstrations--but ended up doing nothing...
...Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine, Mother Night, and The Sirens of Titan); periodic short stories that keep popping up in magazines like Playboy and science fiction anthologies like Tomorrow, the Stars; a book of collected short stories called Welcome to the Monkey-house; and a new novel out this spring called The Slaughterhouse Five, the first two chapters of which were recently printed in Ramparts...
KURT VONNEGUT told us when we talked to him this fall that he had a new book coming out in the spring called The Slaughterhouse Five which was about war. He was, he said, in the infantry in France during the Second World War. They were over-run in the Battle of the Bulge, and most of the men around him were either shot or blown up during the action. Vonnegut and 45,000 other allied soldiers were taken prisoner and put in jails all over Germany...