Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...returned pronouncing it ripe for electoral conquest. The G.L.F. began stockpiling food, negotiating to buy land in Alpine, and signing up recruits for the exodus-nearly 500 have enlisted so far. In an article in the Los Angeles Free Press, G.L.F. Leader Don Jackson wrote glowingly of "a gay civil service, gay housing erected with funds furnished by the state and federal governments, and the world's first museum of gay arts, sciences and history...
...World War II, restless or disaffected in school, stirred to life in the 1950s by Elvis Presley and the early rock 'n' rollers. Bass Guitarist John Paul Jones, 24, is the son of a big-band pianist from the swing era. Plant, 22, son of a civil engineer, spent most of his formative years scouring blues-record shops. Drummer John Bonham, 22, son of a carpenter, got his first set of drums at age seven. Page, the eldest at 25, is the son of an industrial personnel manager. "When I first heard rock," he recalls, "and realized that...
THERE had always been a tension in the civil rights movement about racism. At the time that white Northerners chastised white Southerners for racism, the proximity of whites and blacks in the movement made white Northerners uneasy about their own racism. When Stokely Carmichael kicked whites out of SNCC the conflict was repressed; whites and blacks no longer worked together. Soon after the separatism drive the civil rights movement fragmented. When the student anti-war movement arose, racism was apparently forgotten by whites. A new moral purity, ignoring residual guilt about racism, launched the mass education phase of the anti...
Finally, though, sheer virility won out. Two weeks ago, in a stunning tour de force, he drove the country into a state of martial law, stripping its people of all civil liberties and airlifting thousands of federal troops into the streets of Montreal. The object: to crush an underground separatist band known as Front de Liberation du Quebec...
Politics, according to Epps, has no place in the University, Aside from the protection of basic civil liberties, he feels the University has no political obligations-the academic must predominate, so while the University needs to find ways to become involved in world affairs this must be done by means of an orderly discipline of instruction. Epps sees Harvard moving to adapt itself to modern problems by changing the emphasis in existing academic structures and perhaps adding new institutions, but insists that this be done wholly academically, with a disciplinary approach. Explaining this attitude, Epps recalls that Harvard responded...