Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party will disappear just as the Whigs did. "Men of good will may disagree about the means to solve the urban and black crises," said the Society. "They do not ignore them. The party that does not deal with these problems has no future, whatever the ethnic background of its constituents, and it will go the way of the Whigs, who floundered on the great issue of their era"?slavery, which led to the Civil War. Richard Nixon has been faithful to his theory of the presidency, but it remains to be seen whether that theory is sufficient...
...year ago, the button of the New England Resistance was a black hand-styled Omega on a white background. Omega stands for ohms in electricity which measures resistance, which, sometime after October 16, 1967, became the official insignia for draft resistance. I first put on my Omega button as I dropped my letter to Ramsey Clark with my draft cards into a red and blue box labelled "U. S. Mail." That was in San Diego, California last summer. That was when buttons meant more than they do now. They somehow told what was on your mind...
...daily summing up was accompanied by conceptual diagrams, which he draws on huge newsprint sheets with multicolored felt-tip pens. But dissatisfaction with the meandering course of the formal sessions was palpable. Elspeth Rostow, the highly political wife of former White House Aide Walt Rostow, sat in the background writing savage light verse. Eventually Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, was provoked into a short, sharp speech. "This has been a real smorgasbord of great ideas," he said, "but we must focus on the problem of the will to act. We do have the resources...
...operating pace, and a week of wildcat strikes and slowdowns that greeted the introduction of a new timetable last fall. One commuter recently phoned for train information and was told by a recorded voice that his call was being held for the next available clerk. In the background a live voice snarled: "I am not the next available clerk, goddammit...
From 8 to 11:30 p.m. on Friday starting today the third floor of the Union will be transformed into a happy hunting ground. With rock music blaring in the background so they can't and won't have to talk, Summer School and Harvard-Radcliffe students will mix, dance, and bump together in blissful bacchanalation...