Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warns, even these are not enough. "The record of our action allows some hopes that there may still be flocks of birds flying low over the shore in the 21st century, some hopes for seafood in our diet," writes Mrs. Simon. "But not many." Hers is a tocsin that cannot be sounded often enough...
...Nixon Administration had for years been using the press as a scapegoat?when reporters began investigating the five bunglers who burglarized the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. That crime detonated the nation's greatest scandal and journalism's longest-running political story. Yet the tocsin sounded initially by the overwhelming majority of news organizations was neither sullen nor loud...
...that about finished Tocsin--at least, as Tocsin. Increasingly, students interested in disarmament were also becoming interested in other issues--the civil rights movement, most notably. In a few years, these other interests would lead many of them to accept Barrington Moore's analysis, and to act on it in ways that he, in company with Hughes and the majority of Harvard's other faculty members, would consider misguided or reprehensible. But for the moment, interests in civil rights and community organizing just led many Tocsin people to drift into the other leftist groups that were starting to surface...
There were other intimations, too. A thousand demonstrators, mostly Tocsin people demanding American disengagement from Vietnam, greeted Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu when she came to Ringe Tech in October 1963. "At Columbia they threw eggs at me like I was a peasant," Nhu complained, "but Harvard was incredible." And in May 1964, Harvard saw its first semi-political riot in years: police used dogs and clubs to break up 1500 demonstrators trying to save 70 sycamore trees, slated for replacement by a Mem Drive underpass at Boylston Street (the plans were later revised). Of course, it was only semi-political...
...Mario Savio's--that Savio's "managerial tyranny" with little interest in truth or anything else worth respecting was trying to manage their lives, and generally succeeding. SDS, continuing its block-by-block organizing around local issues in Roxbury and North Harvard but increasingly returning to its predecessor Tocsin's roots in antiwar organizing, doubled its 100 members in the fall...