Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speak? And would such an occurrence make the then readers unable to recognize the truth in the writing and hence not laugh? Well, fundamentally I believe that it is the cliches that will never change, that, as our society mechanizes itself into inactivity, will still form the core base of something familiar...
...being kept in Dresden the day allied bombers came over with a huge incendiary bomb attack that started a fire storm which killed 135,000 people. Vonnegut survived because he was in a cool meatlocker under a slaughterhouse. It all provides the base for his war book; it also is probably the basis of a lot of his other thoughts...
Along with other founders of the dump-Johnson movement, Lowenstein helped launch the New Democratic Coalition (NDC) following this summer's bloodbath in Chicago. Although a successor to the McCarthy movement, the NDC is seeking a wider, more impressive base of support than McCarthy ever did, and its goal is nothing less than the take-over of the Democratic Party...
...most regular Democartic Party officials claimed they would. Like any segment of a political party, in an off-year their numbers aren't as great as during a Presidential camapign. But with a corps of a new thousand active supporters in each state who come from a wide base, many New Democratic Coalition organizations are waging the most vigorous fight in history to take over their state parties...
...Though the NDC espouses the philosophy of participatory politics, it is hardly operating at the present time on the widespread base that it claims. All organizations tend to become elitist once leaders arise, as they did in 1968 in the left-liberal community. It is almost inevitable that these leaders who work continuously on day-to-day implementation of the programs will impose, either inadverently or not, their own views of future policy. Thus participatory politics can easily become a euphemism for the old decision-making process...