Word: understood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEIR experiments take all forms. The worst degenerate by themselves into inanity. As for the best, the mass media, a thoroughly objective institution, is always eager to neutralize, victimize, vulgarize. Moreover, these experiments can scarcely be understood or tolerated by the middle and upper classes, who embrace exactly what they reject, or by the economically oppressed, who want in on the wealth...
Proportional Representation (PR)-which Kenneth Arrow, Professor of Economics yesterday proposed using for the elections to the new Faculty Council-is perhaps the most complicated and least understood of voting systems...
...Vernon was getting impatient. He was playing with his keys and looking around the room. I understood that he had come for more important business and I decided to skip the next couple of questions on my list...
...next major argument concerns tactics. I will admit that I have never understood tactics. They have always seemed to me a way to forget about getting from one place to another. The argument says that blowing up buildings does not organize anyone. I will respond that blowing up buildings is not intended to organize anyone. It is intended to blow up buildings. Those people who want to organize should denounce those who blow up buildings. They could claim that someone from Nepal...
...decided to compromise. We agreed that everyone understood that draft boards and induction centers helped fight the war. I could blow those up, he said. The second part of the agreement was that I would help organize against the CFIA, and wait until people understood what it does before I blow...