Word: weiner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chapter of 800 members was active since the mid-'60s, and although sharply divided, it mounted what many former students say was a particularly democratic demonstration. "Unlike Columbia, we did not have leaders or official spokesmen--the media had a hard time figuring out who was quotable," says Jon Weiner, who was a graduate student and SDS member during the strike. "There were meetings of 1000 people every night and different chairpersons every time," Weiner adds...
...police were completely horrible. They played their role to the hilt and they beat up everybody. It was a textbook case of police brutality," says Weiner. "Their strategy was to send in the cops when there would be the fewest witnesses...
...despite the violence that shocked the Harvard community, Weiner says the upheaval caused by the SDS takeover here was an important step for the national student movement. He says, "If anti-war students could shut down Harvard, the most prestigious university in the country, then the student anti-war movement was a force to be reckoned with...
These last entries are likely to attract most of the preliminary attention. The OED2 co-editors, John Simpson and Edmund Weiner, note that the generating ferment in English has shifted from the literary world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...
News Editor for this Issue: Susan B. Glasser '90 Night Editors: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Colin F. Boyle '90 Ross G. Forman '90 Susan B. Glasser '90 Robert J. Weiner '92 Editorial Editor: Andrew J. Bates '90 Features Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Laura A. DeBonis '91 Business Editor: Andrew R. Jassy '90 Copy Editor: Bryce D. Beseth...