Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nephew was killed in action in Viet Nam two years ago. During the November Moratorium, his name was printed on a placard and tossed into a coffin in front of the White House...
Each man in such an action sees only a fraction of what happens. Yet many such personal recollections were chilling ones. "Everyone was scared going in?we thought there'd be heavy enemy troops there," recalls Charles...
...Ecology Action is concerned with much more than Christmas garbage. It describes its members in one of its pamphlets as "people actively trying to reverse the massive destruction of our environment, our earth household. . . . Simultancously, we are trying to find ways to transform our own personal values, our life styles, and our 'economics' that will insure our survival and the healthy continuance of our earth's life support systems...
Gene Smith would like to see HOP also involved in larger projects. He hopes that his group, along with Ecology Action and the Subway Festival and whoever else joins them, will inspire a national movement to bring people together in good works, create a feeling of community, and return "a sense of potency to the individual." Smith wants to persuade Harvard and M.I.T. to case their academic demands so people in the universities could participate in such a program more freely...
...PARTICIPATION in community action is not enough. We should try, really try, to change our personal patterns of behavior. Such efforts will not take as much time as organized projects, but they will be just as difficult. Even smiling seems a terrific task at this time of year. How about greeting people whom we know but haven't greeted in months? Writing to people we haven't written to in years? Doing little favors for no reason at all? Finding people who deserve our thanks, and saying "Thank you," and meaning...