Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students walked two days without water. They were told they were going to Mozambique to become nurses, doctors or teachers for the struggle. The second night the girl and two companions slipped away. "We kept running the whole night and the next day. We were afraid they would come after us and kill us." They walked for two weeks until they arrived in Salisbury, still in pajamas. "People were laughing at me because they thought I was crazy. A European [white] woman stopped me and asked why I was wearing a nightie in town. That was the first time...
ROLLING STONE magazine good-naturedly bestowed last year's Quote of the Year Award upon Frank Zappa for describing "rock journalism" as "People who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Articulate and outspoken, Zappa has never been afraid to bite the "invisible hand" that feeds him, even insulting the "boys and girls" who buy his records and scream for "Louie, Louie" from concert hall audiences...
LEVY: There is fundamentally no effective solution that could be achieved by any one country acting on its own. The importing countries are afraid to take a uniform position-this is the great failure. Led by the U.S., the importing nations as a group should refuse to admit any oil priced at a surcharge (that is, above the OPEC base price of $14.55 a bbl.). Few traders would then risk paying high prices for oil for which there is an uncertain market...
...them--except they appreciated Kong's artificiality, they wanted to see the strings. A realistic 60-foot gorilla would have been a bit much for people who a mere 30 years before had dived out of their seats at the sight of a moving train on the screen, afraid it would run them over. Both the film-makers and the main characters were adventures--creating special effects on an unprecedented scale--and part of the film's charm lies in the breathless sense of discovery that infuses every shot, heightened with each passing reel. It's something Dino De Laurentiis...
...They should realize that this time, like the spring of 1969, is one of pressing issues, a time to work hard for serious changes. There need not be another strike if the administration is willing to respond to the voices of legitimate student protest. But students should not be afraid to act if the need arises. For those who see the need for real student protest are not, to borrow Pusey's contemptuous phrase, "Walter Mittys on the left." We are realists. And so after we look back and remember, we must also look to the present, and think hard...