Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unexpected Sympathy. Thousands of new Somebodies had to overcome the barrier of illiteracy. Many learned to identify the names of the candidates they favored by staring for hours at crayon-lettered flash cards prepared by civil rights workers. Despite an election regulation that allowed just five minutes in the voting booth, some Negro novices puzzled and pondered over the mysteries of the ballot for as long as half an hour. Encouragingly-if unexpectedly-sympathetic white officials usually gave them all the time they needed, even helped confused illiterates by reading aloud the candidates' names and marking ballots when voters...
...When I was a kid," says Actor Terry Stamp, "I was indoctrinated with the idea of a job that would pay a pension at 55. Now the kids are prepared to spend what they've got. As a working-class boy, there's a real barrier in the mind. It's so strange to be able to do things. There has been a fantastic opening of horizons...
...effect, seminaries are becoming more and more like Catholic colleges, which, in turn, are becoming more and more like secular universities-institutions in which an adherence to church doctrine is no barrier to free intellectual inquiry. Last week this new ideal of the church was summed up by the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, Father General of the Society of Jesus, who spoke at a convocation honoring the 125th anniversary of the Jesuits' Fordham University, during a 17-day visit to the U.S. "The university must be free to analyze not only ungrounded attacks upon the faith, but formulations, defenses...
...Once a mob builds up, we're totally ineffective," he observed. He said that CNVA would notify the police, but hoped that large numbers of patrolmen would not be sent to protect pamphleteers. "They form a barrier and we can't communicate...
...mine, then backed a Citroën delivery truck loaded with 500 Ibs. of plastique explosive up to the gate and blew the Victoria's ground-floor front wide open. Three Americans and three Vietnamese were killed, 113 Americans and twelve Vietnamese wounded. Only the week before, a barrier of drums filled with concrete had been removed from in front of the Victoria because, explained a U.S. spokesman at the time, "we don't want the V.C. to think we're afraid of them...