Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just hear someone (you) saying: can you ask a stranger directions, knowing in your heart his need to answer will exceed his answer--ask, knowing he will almost always answer wrongly or incoherently. And can you follow his directions any way? Can you ask directions without saying where you want to go? Will you follow because he's a special man or because he is just another...
...should begin by conceding that blame for this tawdry charade of confrontation does not rest entirely with the students. The sit-in challenged the tradition of closed Faculty meetings--a challenge that was not met with the shadow of rational answer Thursday afternoon...
...throughout the book we are constantly aware of the whole, the governing force that determines all the happenings of the story, the answer to the suggestion Malachi Constant makes to explain his own good luck--"I guess somebody up there likes...
...that you will let no man's action towards you determine your action towards him. You need only to refuse to let his action determine your response. You need only to refuse to respond to his blow with an attack of your own. You need only to refuse to answer ultimatum with ultimatum. At one point in Paine Hall Dean Glimp acted as a free man. He said, "The fourth alternative is to remove you by force. And none of us is prepared even to consider this." The dean simply refused to do the dance of Columbia one more step...
...question, one of the critical questions in the book, and follow it with the obviously true statement (which even Fortas would support) that there is a difference between the right of free speech and the right of free action. Zinn tries to pass off this truism as the answer to his question...