Word: aire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sooner or later, of course, the television weather-men will promise us a dry air mass from somewhere, and when we wake up the sun will apparently be shining. But we won't be fooled. We'll know it's still raining where it counts...
...air when we came back to Cambridge this fall. There is a pervading sense of futility and meaninglessness and hopelessness and all those adolescent hang-ups, and there is a war that just won't go away...
Violence is in the air. Agnew and his friends from the animal farm have stirred it up as much as possible. Nixon's speech shot down our feeble hopes and drew the battle lines, as it was surely intended to do. He defined anti-war protestors, in effect, as traitors to reason and the democratic processes of the greatest nation in the history of the world...
...moments before the same stewardess had been chatting with a handsome executive in the seat in front of me. Both of them had relatives who had been in the Air Force, and they were swapping stories about how many times their fathers had been shot down. With a touch of one-ups-manship, the exec finally ended the conversation by describing how his father had been killed in the Korean War. The stewardess shook her head knowingly and looked back at me. She obviously had my number...
...KNOW this is a radical thing to say, and you're not supposed to say radical things, but who runs the city of Boston? Is it the tenants or the landlords? Who decides what happens to the air in every city in America? The people who breathe it or the gas companies and the owners of Standard Oil? Somehow, on the critical matters, the men of wealth and power and privilege in America make the decisions of life and death for everyone else. The program notes reprinted this quote from Howard Zinn's Moratorium Day speech and the play gives...