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Public access to the history of American involvement in Vietnam, Cherne argued, could stir "primitive polar passions" and engulf the U.S. in another McCarthy...
...largest club with perhaps the most diverse membership is the Fly. The Fly has an ostentatious club house and garden in front of Lowell House, and with four blacks, the Fly has 80 percent of all black club members. This is not likely to stir a revival of the Ku Klux Klan in New England, but it is a cautious improvement over the days when Jews were untouchable and Joseph Kennedy Jr. became the first Catholic ever to make a club. It is unlikely that Harvard blacks will fall over each other trying to join a club, so the percentages...
...Marxist theory and did nothing to conceal his revolutionary politics, which called for the destruction of the capitalist system. His published prison letters, Soledad Brother, incandescent and often eloquent in their hatred, and his moving compassion for his people made him that contemporary incongruity-a literary celebrity in stir...
...than just that. But by Aug. 7, when he cracked up on a coral reef 4,300 miles from Peru (and 250 miles east of Tahiti), Heyerdahl had proved indubitably that a balsa raft could cross the Pacific. He had also become a celebrity- one of those adventurers who stir the thin blood of the technological age with intimations of what the word hero once meant...
...Guards, the booklet also advises children to "photograph every pollutant detected"-not only results of their own experiments but any debris found behind factories, stores and offices or in the streets, parks and rivers. Reporting the results of pollution tests to the proper authorities will create a stir, the kids are warned, but because antipollution laws are "basically ineffective, vigilant citizens are needed to help seek out the offenders...