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...young Americans have done more to "work within the system" than a growing band of lawyers who toil overtime honing a new tool of social reform -the public-interest law firm. Convinced that established law firms have hired the nation's best legal minds to concentrate on serving rich corporate clients, the young lawyers have started their own firms to fight for consumer, conservation and other under-represented interests...
...MOST MEN," wrote Henry David Thoreau, "even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously course labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that." Beneath his countrymen's amusements, Thoreau saw "a stereotyped but unconscious despair which permitted no relaxation from the young nation's frenzied strivings...
...persuade the Rumanians to accept a new paragraph recognizing the Brezhnev Doctrine, which justifies Soviet intervention anywhere in the "socialist commonwealth." Ceausescu rightly saw the doctrine as a threat to his foreign policy of "active coexistence" with both friends and enemies of the Kremlin, and adamantly refused to agree toil...
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BROOKLYN Walter P. Reuther, LL.D., late president of the United Auto Workers. No speaker for those who toil in oar midst can replace him, for he was that rare human individual: a man who cares enough to make change not only possible but real...
...oldest and most enduring of student grievances is, of course, the need for intellectual toil. And personally I have always found such toil a distressing thing. But again no successful social system provides an escape. And it is wrong, I think, to use the wrongs of this society as a way of escaping such labor. In the aftermath of the enlargement of the war this spring and of the murders at Kent State and Jackson State, it was no doubt necessary that regular university operations be modified or suspended. But this must not become a habit. I have a further...