Word: springly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...situation at Yale last spring was an independent organism, towering over the people involved. Every side: students, Panthers, police, administration, struggled to define its own position, and everyone agreed that he was not trying to attack anyone else. Kingman Brewster said that he doubted that black revolutionaries could get a fair trial: Big Man, the Panther spokesman, called for solidarity with students and radicals; the police chief announced that his men would keep a low profile; a group of students and faculty members offered to ride around in unmarked patrol cars and help the police break up incidents...
People at Yale are still trying to piece together exactly what happened on Mayday, and why it happened. One of them has written a book in an attempt to justify last spring to the world outside Yale, and perhaps also to explain it to the people at Yale. John Hersey's Letter to the Alumni will not be remembered as his greatest book, but it may become known as his most curious. In it, he has summed up the whole overwhelming feeling of innocence which led most of Yale to act as it did. This book will not please many...
Yale is not deserving of praise for its conduct last spring but it has not merited the censure it has received. Perhaps the only useful thing about Hersey's book is that it demonstrates the curious motivations which led Yale...
...students, who were pretty quiescent a couple of years ago. are apparently quite radical and organized now. The schools were all closed down last spring. I don't know if they've opened yet; I doubt it. There's a tremendous amount of student action. There are war veterans demonstrations. There's no doubt that the NLF is very active there. A CIA report issued a couple of weeks ago said that the NLF has about 30,000 agents in the government. Probably something like that is right...
Joseph Rhodes Jr., Harvard Junior Fellow and a member of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest, said Sunday that two Ohio National Guardsmen "committed second-degree murder" in the shootings of four Kent State University students last spring...