Word: asking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard quite a few times who it is (as if a whole class could be a "who"). We are probably the most written about class in history. The media and our parents and various other old people have been telling us who are for a long time--or they ask us, "Who are you anyway?" "Why are you kinds doing what you are doing?" The question is a horror. It is a question that no one should ever answer in his entire life, but it is one that we have all been forced to answer, and that is our problem...
After several meetings lasting far into the night, the City Council voted to ask the City Solicitor's opinion of the legality of a proposed rent control ordinance proposed to the Council by the Cambridge Housing Convention...
Still, individualism has not lost its hold on the American psyche. In a moral crisis, most people say that they depend on their conscience to be their guide rather than on any external authority. Among whites, 45% believe that a man should depend on himself and not ask for favors; 53% of blacks agree. Yet 66% of the blacks questioned by Harris' interviewers contended that '"it helps to know people" in getting ahead, while only 33% of the whites thought so. Again, "If you don't look out for yourself, nobody else will" is a statement accepted...
...missionaries taught us to sing, 'Red and yellow, black and white,/All are equal in Thy sight.' What is necessary is for us to really recognize one another as equals." A tentative resolution suggested that those who felt compelled to turn to violence should first ask themselves whether all possibilities of a peaceful protest had been exhausted. This idea was quickly rejected, and one speaker explained, rather apologetically, that its author was "an out-and-out pacifist...
Still he can get no closer to his ideal, and his despair becomes briefly ridiculous and self-parodying: "Although I have the key she gave me, I forgot to ask her where she sleeps at night." Then he becomes tragically resigned, remembering with detachment his love for "the thirty-year-old debutante, whispering to ghosts in the room ...Jacqueline with the past in her eyes."He faces his failure sorrowfully: "It tears a boy's heart away, loving girls who don't care about love. " And he sees others in his own jaded condition; as he tells "morning girl," "Your...