Word: springly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fashion trade are also cashing in on Now. The latest development is that the squares who exploit the hip are in turn being exploited by the radicals. It is a logical development, considering the precedents: black militants have demanded their cut from church collections, and radical N.Y.U. students last spring captured the computer, demanding $100,000 ransom to be used as Black Panther bail money...
There is a sense of anticlimax after the disturbing events of spring. The Nixon Administration has matched the national mood: the President and his people are trying to conciliate American differences and lower the rhetorical temperature of the Administration...
...spoken 19-year-old cellist who is a Columbia College sophomore. Before the Cambodian invasion and the student deaths at Kent State University, he says, "I hadn't reached the state within myself to be involved in anything political. I had my music. The disruption of everything this spring forced me into a commitment." It is a strong commitment. Recently he and four other students walked onto a building site in lower Manhattan where they spent more than four hours discussing their differences with the construction men. "I saw one guy in the group just plastered with American flags...
...came rushing onto the scene in May to establish a beachhead in conventional politics. Summer started, school ended, and predictably most of the student volunteers have forsaken figurative for littoral beaches. But those who remain are hard at work registering voters, gathering petitions, computerizing, analyzing their mistakes in the spring primaries, interested in winning on the issues rather than losing with elan. Their principal goal in November is to elect a Congress that will end the Viet Nam War and turn the nation's attention and efforts to the achievement of racial reconciliation, a better environment, the restoration...
...M.N.C. is setting up regional centers throughout the country. Some are embryonic and may never really come to life; others are already operative. Headquartered in Princeton, M.N.C. has a computer that sorts and slots the names of more than 10,000 students who in the heady, rebellious days of spring said they would work for the cause...