Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Hats. "All the things we've tried to help the cities with aren't working out very well, are they?" asks Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 40, a former Assistant Secretary of Labor and currently the most controversial of urban-affairs analysts. The question may sound over jaunty, but in fact it reflects the chief preoccupation of Pat Moynihan's life and the central domestic issue, one that is increasingly engaging the nation's intellectual community...
...That was a very imaginative piece. What people aren't aware of is that it isn't the hippies who are rebelling; it is society that has rebelled against and turned its back on love, individuality and humanity. All the hippies are attempting is to set the course straight. As for drugs, I am 17 years old and am looking forward to experiencing the psychedelic field. I am already tired of viewing objects from the same patterned angles and perspectives, that is, from bottom, top, sideways -I want to get inside things, in the mainstream, bloodstream-sightsee...
...more men could be relieved of support jobs and assigned to combat. The Defense Secretary, like most other visitors and students of the war, has been particularly troubled by the failure of the Vietnamese to increase the effectiveness of their forces. Another thing bothered him. "Why," he demanded, "aren't all those long-haired kids I see riding around town on motorbikes in the Army?" The Vietnamese were not exactly encouraging in their reply. Waiting until McNamara had departed, Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu called a news conference to explain that the country already has an inordinate number...
...that Ho Chi Minh is Japanese." He is convinced that by educating them, even scantly, in Vietnamese history, he has moved many "one step closer to a dove position." Complete conversions don't happen, but at the very least, Emonds concludes, "the hawks find out that the peacniks aren't all beatniks, dope fiends, or Commies...
...three cities-Chicago, Washington and Boston-the study found that four out of every five white policemen working in Negro neighborhoods have prejudiced attitudes toward Negroes. The report estimated that 45% of the white police (and, surprisingly, nearly 10% of the Negro police) showed near pathological hostility: "These scum aren't people". . ."We oughta gas these niggers-they're ruining the country." Though the survey found that police are rarely "unprofessional" in their contacts with Negroes, the conclusion was inescapable that this antipathy is felt by ghetto dwellers and itself contributes to riots...