Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Miss Dorothy Parker symbolized. Things are now laughed about that she would have found vulgar, if not downright indiscreet. Humor today is broad and black. Perhaps it is more human; it is certainly less artificial. Yet the suspicion mounts that behind the laughter of "alienation," there is a wide streak of sentimentality, too, just as there was behind the "cynicism" of Dorothy Parker...
Joseph N. Sorrentino, chosen in a University-wide competition to give one of the English parts at the ceremony, said that, a gang fighter and the son of a street sweeper, he had flunked out of high school and taken a series of odd jobs from office boy to bleach factory worker...
...reliance on action--confrontation and protest--rather than ideology has enabled SDS in the middle phase of its development to include a wide variety of personalities and interests. The organization can claim as members blue-collar militants of the Progressive Labor Party, as well as three-piece suit liberals from ADA. There are anarchist hippies, humanists, Communists and an increasing number of former members of Young Americans for Freedom, a liber tarian laissez faire capitalist group. About 85 per cent of the membership, according to Davidson, serves merely as "shock troops." These are younger members, usually in the "long hair...
...student authors also raised the issue of discrimination in job placement, and recommended curriculum changes which would provide for more electives, promote extended writing experience, expand cross-registration with Harvard graduate programs, and explore the advantages of smaller classes. Wide-spread agreements with these complaints was manifested in two public forums held to discuss reform at the Law School...
...dissent has become wide enough for the radicals and the moderates to get together in support of Vietnam Summer, a Cambridge-based project to organize voters against the war. Despite all the enthusiasm which the project has stirred, its objectives thus far are quite unclear. In fact, the group itself will have no "party line"; each participant is free to respond as he wishes to queries on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately, or whether the President should be opposed in 1968 even if running against a hawkish Republican. On the other hand, radical leaders who will be helping...