Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strike Continuance...
...STUDENT ASSEMBLY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO GIVES SOLIDARITY TO ITS BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF HARVARD-RADCLIFFE STRIKE MOVEMENT STUDENT ASSEMBLY...
...Owing to a typographical error, a letter from Myles Lynk '70 which was published in yesterday's CRIMSON stated that Afro favors a continuation of the current strike "beyond April." This should have read, "beyond April...
...LIKE TO relate Kurt Vonnegut's latest book to the strike. Doesn't it seem that, now, whenever we turn to our minds to do a little thinking we always find the same unexplainable desire to go do political stuff? The politics of the strike are so much with us that most of the time it's near impossible to be at ease if we're not at the rally. And these days nearly every hour there's a rally we're not going to if we're not there. (I hear a muffled echo out my window...
Throughout Vonnegut's book there is a persistent and unavoidable sense of preoccupation similar to the feeling of obligation we now feel towards strike activities. What he is obligated to in Slaughterhouse-Five is death. This isn't a very easy thing for a fatalist to be obligated to Fatalism (that is, the belief that the "reasons" why things happen to us are a series of random events beyond our control) serves us particularly well as a transition--to, for example, move us philosophically from event to event in our existence. When someone's existence terminates in the book...