Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, the play is a reenactment of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Remember them? They were about secession...and slavery...and union...and--you know--all those Civil War topics. From the tri-colored jumble that dominates the stage to periodic bursts of off-pitch folk singing, The Rivalry shrieks Americana. It is not a pleasant sound...
...slogan "Question Authority" with a convincing fusion of scientific insight and moral outrage. It is true Gofman's ideas about "privilege-elites"--occasionally sends him flying off on odd tangents outside his expertise. These can be provocative, like his argument, in the form of a logical proof, that nuclear war is inevitable. Or they can be simply naive, like his call for slashing the size of government in favor of personal generosity and an ill-defined international "justice movement." But one need not accept all Gofman's opinions to leave his book with a terrible new sense that something...
Secret Service agents displayed their traditional cool in a potentially explosive situation. They let the two RCP protesters harangue the man who served as Secretary of the Air Force at the height of the Vietnam war. At the same time, the agents inconspicuously slid into position in case one of the verbal assailants pulled a gun. A moment before, Brown had been extolling the virtues of arms control...
...pulled out. In the commotion that followed, some students tried to force an open path, others blocked the way, and hundreds ran over to join the action. It took some time before they realized that the car's occupant was not Robert McNamara, architect of the war, but Graham K. Allison '62, Institute official, doing...
...with the possible exception of "the April season" of protest, that precedent has been sublimated, if not forgotten. The fringe demos that accompany the appearance of each "imperialist war monger" and "amoral capitalist" are strictly routine, a part of the scenery. That's the way it appeared last Monday night before Brown's speech--the standard crowd of 20 protesters from the Spartacus Youth League and the RCP shouting slogans or engaged in heated debate with self-appointed defenders of the free world, etc., and the curious watching and listening. That much was expected--"I'm here to keep...