Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little need even for constructive alternatives to American foreign policy. The Young Democrats and the Young Republicans had both cabled support on Cuba to President John F. Kennedy '40, and the Lowell Lec meeting had been called by the most activist, most pacifist organization on campus, a group called Tocsin that never had more than about 80 members. Tocsin had grown out of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy in the summer of 1960--the same year that saw a minor flurry of small student demonstrations outside the Cambridge Woolworth's, in solidarity with sit-ins to integrate...
That was when the group's faculty adviser, H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, decided to run for the Senate as an Independent peace candidate--the first of the 1960s. Tocsin members and other Harvard students formed much of Hughes's campaign staff. At first, things went surprisingly well. Hughes got more than twice the 73,000 signatures he needed to make the ballot, and he and his supporters forced his two opponents--Edward M. Kennedy '54, whom the liberals who backed Hughes regarded as an administration stooge with few principles or abilities, and George Cabot...
...Crimson era, and spelled the same numb disbelief and uncomprehending shock at Harvard which it caused all over the country. Although the paper remained liberal and Democratic, the war policies of the Johnson Administration caused increasing alienation among the editors. At Harvard, a small, left wing group called Tocsin gave way to a newer group called SDS, which became more militant as the war escalated and the Executive Branch increased the level of warfire without consent of Congress, or the people. In 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara was surrounded and detained by a group of students; punishments were handed...
...that many of them too, from time to time, are caught up by the cause. To capture the feelings of some of them, at least, TIME turned to Sue Kaufman, wife, mother, and author of Diary of a Mad Housewife, a novel (and later film) that early sounded the tocsin of domestic alarm...
...outside?though a helicopter stood by at Al-Hummar Palace just in case, ready to lift him to exile (probably in Iran). At 4:05 on a quiet morning in Amman, barely 24 hours after martial law was imposed, an artillery round shattered the predawn quiet. It was the tocsin for a barrage of fire from both sides, mostly in the dark at shapeless targets...