Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Malcolm X was killed by a black man. George Wallace was allegedly shot by a follower-though Arthur Bremer was evidently bird-dogging other candidates with aimless hostility. The list is endless: personal peril now climbs aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, hides in a locked apart ment-or in a suburban shopping center as it did recently when a janitor gunned down a handful of strollers in North Carolina. If the earth is unsafe the air bristles with danger. Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe...
Indeed, many feel that the path is a deadend. The worn tactics--lobbying (by students or by college presidents), obstructive sit-ins, and certainly aimless violence--now have questionable influence on the decisions that are made in the offices that count in Washington. What they do influence is the way Nixon foists those decisions on the public. The reaction to the Cambodian incursion of 1970 did not instruct Nixon not to invade Laos six months later; rather it taught him how to time his actions and manage the press. Strategy seems sometimes to focus more on what the Administration...
...night, after rejecting a motion to continue the strike in its present form, over one sixth of the persons at the Sanders Theatre strike meeting voted to reconsider the question. It then passed by a 324-190 margin, and the meeting adjourned after two and a half hours of aimless debate, although there were 13 items on the agenda, the meeting was able to move only through the second subsection of the first item before adjournment. At one point, only 15 persons voted on a question before the assembly...
...when serious efforts are being made throughout the country to protest the latest escalation of the war in Southeast Asia. History has shown that under sufficient pressure the American government, and the American people, respond to united and disciplined expressions of discontent. Just as surely, they are repulsed by aimless violence...
...compositions are not nearly the equals of their versions of other's songs though their high lever of musicianship makes ever the worst song tolerable, Judging by the recorded efforts to date, the return to the "50s has strengthened rock and roll--it's given a lot of aimless musicians someplace to go. The roots of rock have always been strong: they are a reassuring retreat in a relatively uncreative period of rock and roll...