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...emphasize the program's immediate organizational thrust, the directors rechristened it "Vietnam Summer." The idea of a summer doorbell ringing campaign was always part of Teach Out, and the shift was merely from one catchy phrase to another...
Intimate Shane. Inside its drum shape, Becket's Taper Forum boasts a thrust stage surrounded by a semicircle of seats banking gracefully upward for 14 rows. The farthest spectator is just barely 16 yards from the action and the sound is superior. Considering its impressive size, the Ahmanson Theater is also remarkably intimate; as in the trail-blazing Chandler Pavilion, Architect Becket has replaced the traditional shoe-box-shaped auditorium with an almost perfect square. The proscenium is as wide and as high as the walls and ceilings, the stage semithrust...
...recounted a once-familiar chronology and cleared up some of the misconceptions mass media unthinkingly thrust into our too open minds. Yet he has done more--too damn much more. He has tried, to relate and mawkishly analyze the most minute reactions of the President's family, friends, and official Washington. He has intruded on our recollections with hoked-up naturalism, and clogged our impressionistic memories with what he presents as cold fact...
...that response should be largescale, staged civil disobedience, followed by a long-range, concerted effort to develop a political and organizational thrust to the anti-war movement. Schematically, we should propose the following sequence for civil disobedience. First, everything should be done to bring home to as many people as possible the fact that a qualitative shift in the war is occurring. In addition to mustering and expanding the factual information we have the individuals who are receiving this memo should begin to gather groups to discuss the current situation and contemplate local and national responses. Our experience in Boston...
...remarkable how so few can set the tone for so many. The central fact is that most students remain the same from generation to generation. They remain quite recognizable. But in each generation a few thrust themselves forward, or are thrust forward by the situation--in the stadium, in the classroom, before the microphone--and come to stand as changing symbols for the largely unchanging multitude. They are those who ride with the spirit of the times, those who are under the circumstances the most vocal and aggressive and, also, those who are seized upon by the public as "typical...