Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Commitment. Of the irregulars' effect on the people of Phu Vinh, Hayden says: "Before Tet, they were fat, dumb and happy. After Tet, we looked around and saw that the people were scared to death. Now they aren't complacent, but they are confident. They think the V.C. can't get in here again. They are our great hope for the future down here." On the spread of such commitment may well rest the success of the South Vietnamese government in the trying times of war-or truce-that lie ahead...
...Many of the ideas that I'm talking about aren't new--it's just that we haven't had the power to institutionalize them. I think we've got the ideas and objectives already; we defined them through protest. But we can't rely on hope any more. The next job is getting political power behind them--this is the job of today and the next four years...
...students, but to "shape the educational environment" by building alliances between teachers and the rest of the labor movement. "A lot of things we're trying to do for kids can't be done in the classroom. Kids who come to school without any breakfast aren't going to learn one damn thing. We do more for them through the civil rights movement and the labor movement by affecting the context of their lives." An active integrationist, Shanker was a charter member of CORE, and joined protests in Selma...
...have heard many things about rows and rows of neatly symmetric desks, with neatly symmetric businessmen behind them, and about automated managers running them, these are all cliches without a grain of truth, aren't they...
...confrontation indignation ebbs. Watch that anti-authoritarian hang-up, man. These aren't the days of Babbit, you know. Things have changed. Business is ghetto-bound and groovy and so forth. New managerial elite. They don't discriminate, and if they do, they're sure not going to tell you about it. These are politically sensitive times, after all. By 1970, half the nation under 25, you're a valuable commodity. You know, he's probably going to offer you the job right there. He's going to say you're a nice Jewish boy, just what we've been...