Word: students
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down Commonwealth Avenue a crowd of 100,000 converged on the Boston Common. They were mostly students, but mothers from Newton and Wellesley walked among them, their children wearing black M-day armbands or clutching helium-filled black balloons. From a bar, a man hollered: "Bums! Do they think of the guys who died on Guadalcanal?" Halfway across the nation in front of the Forest Park (Ill.) Selective Service office, miniskirted girls from nearby Rosary College were reciting the names of the Illinois war dead; two elderly clerks inside went on with their work, paying little attention. San Francisco State...
...lights in the lecture hall. A figure in a gaudy Halloween costume and mask dashed in from a side door and hurled a custard pie into Kerr's face. He scored a direct hit, then raced away. (Collared and later unmasked by police, the masquerader, a onetime student radical, was arrested.) Dr. Kerr calmly removed his glasses and wiped them clean with his handkerchief. "I'd like to ask for equal time," he said quietly. The students gave him a standing ovation...
Inevitable Reactions. By the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism was the new academicism. A million haphazard abstractions splashed from the hands of virtually every art student able to clasp a brush or wield a tube of paint. A reaction was inevitable, though no one dreamed its name would be Pop, its inspiration advertising and comic strips. To many, the antidote was distinctly more unpleasant than the malady. But there were moments of high humor and certainly social awareness. A rich, fat and powerful consumer society was rich, fat and powerful enough to accept its own image, no matter how ugly it turned...
...times as sweet as sugar and does not add calories to the diet. But saccharin has the disadvantage of leaving a bitter aftertaste in many people's mouths, and it cannot be widely used in cooking because it breaks down under heat. When a doctoral chemistry student, Michael...
...WERE THE CAMPAIGN by Ben Sfavis. 206 pages. Beacon. $7.50 (paper, $2.95). A graduate student turned activist provides a nuts-and-bolts report on the other half of the McCarthy phenomenon, the get-clean-for-'Gene "children's crusade...