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Bass managed to weed out the false rumors that had plagued Orangeburg in the days before the shooting. The presence of Black Militant Cleveland Sellers, organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, had led to tales of outside agitation; two thrill-seeking white teen-agers had roared across the black campus firing a gun; a highway patrolman had fired a warning shot into the air; rifle fire had been heard from adjoining Claflin University. State authorities blamed Cleveland Sellers, even though the only available evidence suggested that on the night of the shooting, Sellers was actually a victim. The trial...
...sense, her paintings are like the desert itself, where there is no apparent middle ground: everything is either far or near, held in a hallucinatory clarity. In O'Keeffe's tender, expanded details of Jimson weed, desert roses, shingles and pebbles, a generation used to psychedelics will recognize a part of its own experience-reality declaring its inexhaustible fullness. Perhaps it is the concentration of such images, with their shifts of scale and razor-sharp exactitude, that leads some viewers to compare them to Surrealism. But surrealist imagery is, almost by definition, fantastic, whereas O'Keeffe...
...agreed on some basic issues, "he writes, "the war is wrong, the draft is an abomination and a slavery, abortions are sometimes necessary and should be legal, universities are an impossible bore, LSD is Good and Good For You, etc., etc. - and I realize that marijuana, that precious weed, was our universal common denominator." If he ever begins to articulate a philosophy, it is in big capital letters: TOTAL LEISURE, FREEDOM, PLEASURE, etc., and he understands that they aren't enough. "It is important for you to understand the way we lived, " he says, realizing that he can explain much...
...removed any he could find. He told McCarthy that Harvard had to be free to police itself. We begin to see that what repulsed Pusey about Joe McCarthy was not his politics, for Pusey too disliked communism. Rather it was McCarthy's piggish style. A liberal system must always weed out its enemies, but with understated elegance...
Appalled by this situation, the Research Council has responded by drafting a set of guidelines aimed at protecting both the donor and the user of plasma products. To weed out the unfit, it proposes limiting participation in plasmapheresis programs to persons of "fixed address...