Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ugliness, deliberate, sustained ugliness is surely a sin, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Concert at the Loeb last weekend was just that. Every now and then--when the dancers stopped running straight across the stage, jerking like epileptics, teetering on the verge of toppling, then toppling (whether purposely or not)--the evening did provide some fleeting moments of pleasure. But there were...
...fact is that most whites, like most Negroes, still remain outside the civil rights movement, often by choice. The small army of suburbanites that descended on New York City's ghetto districts one recent weekend, brooms and paintbrushes in hand, left most of their neighbors at home in various degrees of disinterest. "Volunteerism is not any great answer," says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans. "The suburbanites who go into the slum have contact, but they probably need it the least. The ones who need it are the ones who stayed home...
...barricades. Late at night, the gendarme phalanxes charged-and nearly a square mile of Paris turned into a battlefield. As retreating students hurled Molotov cocktails and set fire to many autos, the explosion of their gasoline tanks mixed with the pop of police tear-gas grenades. In a belated weekend effort to restore calm, Premier Georges Pompidou proclaimed on radio and television that reform of the university system was "indispensable," and promised to reopen the Sorbonne this week. He even hinted that appeal courts would deal lightly with already convicted student leaders...
...student volunteers, McCarthy's weekend warriors, were even more enthusiastic. Like World War I veterans, they loved to search out old friends and rehash the campaigns they had already seen. Some had known the snow in New Hampshire, many more recalled the friendliness of Wisconsin. For others, it was their first crusade. For those of us from Harvard, reading period had made it easy to respond to latent activism. McCarthy had become something of an intellectual's cause celebre. As self-conscious, guilt-ridden liberals we joined the battle...
...same time, we were developing a certain contemptuousness for Kennedy's canvassers. Many of them had been attracted by ads offering a free weekend in Indiana. Some, we knew, received daily meal allowances; others, it was rumored, were being paid outright. Often they were still in high school. We derided the tactlessness of Bobby's teeny-boppers. Of course, they tried to adopt our own air of self-sacrifice. It was generally unsuccessful. One giggly girl proudly announced that she and her friends would be spending the night in a church. "God must be on our side," she laughed. Well...