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...WOULD indeed be miraculous if this nonsensical debate has not already convinced many students that all of our protest has now become silly and useless. But if we are ever to build a successful movement against neo-colonial wars, we must take this idea of "strike" and put it back on the shelf, where it belongs. If people wish to attend class, we should not waste time preventing them from doing so. We should instead concentrate on proposals for concrete, politically sensible courses of direct action. And if our actions are logical and appealing, more and more people will join...
...wonder that the mass meeting degenerated into a useless verbal brawl, because the word "strike" has automatically, and unjustifiably become the central word in our vocabulary. And it is a word that lacks any form of definition in its current context. Under most circumstances, a "strike" is a stoppage of work undertaken for the purpose of winning a concrete concession. Built into the word is a strong implication that the protest is directed against a single target. Most importantly, "strike" means that in order to win our demands, we intend to deprive our opponent of something which he finds indispensable...
...candidate, on one demonstration, and said to itself, if only this man can be elected, if only we can assemble a quarter-million demonstrators on the streets of Washington, then by this one action we will have succeeded in our goal of convincing the President that it is useless to continue the war. Aside from its historically proven failure, such a perspective can only build cynicism and resignation as it becomes increasingly evident that the one-man, one-demonstration approach has not succeeded...
...another Department of Health, Education and Welfare agency, the Division of Biologies Standards, appear to have eluded the effectiveness requirement. According to a report by the General Accounting Office, DBS, over many years, has allowed 32 substances including some flu vaccines to be marketed though they were virtually useless. Some may also be dangerous...
...Chang's Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and Intellectual Transition in China is an outgrowth of his Ph.D. thesis. Nevertheless, it reads smoothly and does not attempt to overburden the reader with the useless facts or to overawe him with the writer's analytical skills. The author has attempted to show how currents of Western and traditional Chinese thought clashed in Liang's mind. Liang did not merely substitute Western ideas for those already present in the Chinese tradition. Liang would accept a particular Western idea, but he was perfectly willing to discard that idea if he found an element...