Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Included in the group of political camp followers are the political "outs" -most notably Steve Kelman of YPSL, who is gathering material for his new book or his next article in the New Leader, and a fellow from Young Americans for Freedom, who managed to get inside University Hall last...
For example, whenever SDS (which is Worker-Student Alliance SDS at Harvard) has a demonstration, November Action Coalition (NAC) people like Mike Ansara and Barry Margolin are on hand. When NAC has a demonstration, WSA is there. John Berg is always there. WSA people usually ask political questions of the...
THE SECOND group includes non-political camp followers, who want to see what the youth of America is up to. Faculty members like Marty Peretz and Michael Walzer are usually there, and so are Cambridge types like Sheldon Deitz, House Masters and Senior Tutors are there too, but mainly just...
But the third group, by far the most interesting, is the press. At many demonstrations there are more reporters, photographers, cameramen, cameramen's helpers, off-duty reporters, and off-duty photographers than there are demonstrators. At the height of the latest OBU occupation, about 50 journalists were inside University Hall...
Covering demonstrations is not something that the press does very well, but it is something that the press does very frequently. Demonstrations come in neat packages. Readers like them. It is easy to tell what is going on. Demonstrations dramatize all the big issues of our time, like Vietnam and...