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Canning disagrees sharply. "I think our position was that of a catalyst. We speeded up the reactions of people on both sides. We received support from the basketball team, the fencing team, the gymnastics team, and Hal and Olga Connolly. On the other hand, there were Randy Matson and Bob Seagren, who saw us as Berkeley radicals. They felt you represent the red, white, and blue for Grandma and apple pie and that...
...dreamland, feverishly discussing romantic tactics but hardly contemplating realistic execution. Part of the responsibility for the disturbances rests upon the revolutionaries consciously seeking to subvert and destroy the University but their total number was small--much less than the full SDS membership--and their activities were only the catalyst that precipitated a deeper movement. (By the same token our comments concerning the above group should not be applied to the much larger number who seek fundamental change in the established order without embracing doctrinaire revolutionary theory and tactics...
...their problem in the fact that under HEW the individual states would control the program and possibly curtail its scope. Traditional support for state control is one reason for the longstanding Republican opposition to OEO. When Head Start proved to be not only a resounding success but also a catalyst for integration, Southern Democrats joined the opposition. Now OEO fears that segregationists would deliberately downgrade the program in the South...
...older catalyst is the Memphis police department's traditional policy of heavy-handedness toward Negroes, which ranges from routine rudeness to blatant brutality. Since King's visit and the marches, the Commission on Civil Rights has collected more than 50 documented cases of police brutality...
...ebullient, frizzy-haired "Sasha" Schneider is, at 59, a second fiddler the likes of which chamber music has rarely seen. Whirling like a dervish around the fringes of the limelight, he is not only a tireless performer but also an enormously influential catalyst and organizer, teacher and tastemaker. Wherever he goes, music seems to happen around him through a sort of spontaneous combustion...