Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...envy those lucky U.S. student activists! While they were meditating on Mailer and Goodman. I was wading through Macaulay's History of England and the Weber thesis. While they were getting the vote out in New Hampshire and Wisconsin, I was dragging 75% of a frequently apathetic student body to the polls in Choice '68. While they were having their theses postponed, I was up all night typing an overdue anthropology paper. While they were getting money from Daddy, I was hurrying to my Saturday job. While they were uncommitted to a future career, I was unsuccessfully seeking...
...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...
Every major crew in the East, plus Wisconsin, will meet on lake Quinsigamond in Worcester...
William Appleman Williams, professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, will speak on "The Origin of American Imperialism" at 8 p.m. tonight at 2 Divinity Avenue...
...great majority of them come from families that are prosperous, politically active and liberal. Almost half of the protest-prone students are Jewish; few are Catholic. The most active students cluster in schools that have a tradition of dissent and a tolerance for it-universities such as California, Wisconsin, Columbia. Most of the activists are students of the arts and humanities; they are apt to be bright but dreamy, and not yet committed to careers. Few are in the professional schools-business, engineering or medicine. Since many universities no longer demand compulsory attendance at lectures, they have the time...