Word: armbanded
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Buttons are made a form of advertising your mind (whereas the armband is more the feeling of your heart). As might be expected, buttons, too, are on the climb. They are more and different...
...police and examined on film by the Walker staff, no one can yet say what it was. It has been described as a "black flag of anarchy," a "red flag" and a "Viet Cong flag." Some witnesses state it was a suit of red underwear or a red armband or a rag. On films of the incident, it appears to be "a knotted red cloth or a girl's bright red slip." Police, after a hard fight, pulled down the object, but not even the cops know what it was or what happened...
...gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet to be sure I've got the two I.D.'s necessary to get back into my college. I stare at the cops. They stare back and see a red armband and long hair and they perhaps tap their nightsticks on the barricade. They're looking at a radical leftist...
...Guards and various revolutionary mass organizations should be rectified ideologically and organizationally." That was one of only two references in the 3,000-word document to the once all-important Red Guards. For all official purposes, the Red Guards have vanished as thoroughly as Mrs. Mao. Hardly a red armband has been seen in the Chinese capital in the past two months...
...attended the teach-in at the University of Michigan [May 14] with more than passing interest. I was, however, dismayed to hear clichés and slogans instead of the searching discussions I had expected. During the polemics, the armband wearers bustled about with ludicrous selfimportance, contributing only rudeness and epithets to the "search for alternatives." There appeared to be no cognizance of the complexity or even the reality of the situation in Viet Nam. The entire problem seemed to boil down to being for or against the burning of Vietnamese children. During one of the intermissions, however, my dismay...