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...anti-apartheid rally, the activist berates the crowd, "We've got to tear this world apart, we've got to recall a more causative day and spark the fire of revolution once again. I am so fucking mad'...and in her fury she jumped two stories and tore her jeans in all the right places. All the girls screamed and told her she looked really cool." Bernhard's precise ear for the nuances of the language of popular culture works here to almost poetic effect. There are few writers who could put a phrase like "causative day" into a characters...
...night of March 12, gunfire tore through the Square, frightening bystanders, including several Harvard students, but resulting in no injuries...
...Roberta recalls, Cara's mother thanked her and said, "Take good care of our baby." "I said, 'Well, don't you think we've done a pretty good job in the last 2 1/2 years?' She just looked at me real funny and turned and walked away. It literally tore me to a million pieces. That she couldn't give me that much...
...stories made an activist out of a man who had stayed out of the conflicts that tore the College apart when he was a student. As a professor, he spearheaded a crusade for a University-wide rule forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
...wasn't only a left-right thing. '68 reconfigured all the categories and tore up the political maps that had worked, more or less, since the time of the French Revolution. Yes, the social movements that climaxed in '68 were a "New Left," but only in the sense that, say, Rosemary's Baby (1968) was just a new member of the family. Old leftists -- communists and socialists -- responded to it, more often than not, with revulsion. In France the Communist Party did its best to isolate the young enragees. In China senior party hacks shuddered before a Cultural Revolution whose...