Word: belongs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNDER the late spring sun, a patina of calm overlays the American campus. Nearly all the rhetoric is coming from duly invited commencement speakers rather than protest leaders. The marching feet belong not to demonstrators but to the 925,000 youths receiving college and graduate degrees this month. Some of the most violent students have been expelled, suspended, imprisoned or pacified. Here and there last week, a few recalcitrants cried defiance, but with little tangible effect. It looks like peace. In reality, the prevailing condition is a most fragile truce...
...belong," he says. "If a guy on the street is being brutalized by a police officer, that should be my concern. It's the whole goddamned thing of 'don't get involved.' " By getting involved, Ditto is molding powerless people into a significant force. Despite the reservations of many whites, the East Side clergymen and the blue-chip board of New Detroit are betting it will be a force for good. Says Baldwin: "We are nobodies. Frank Ditto is a nobody. We must come together at this level-a thousand nobodies...
November 17: The Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee released a report recommending that ROTC lose its academic privileges. The report stressed that ROTC did not belong in the Harvard curriculum because the ROTC courses--unlike any others in the College--were under outside control and did not constitute "work towards a liberal degree...
There are, of course, some Viennese who dislike opera-just as there are some who find Sachertorte unappetizing, the waltz old-fashioned and the Danube dismally dirty. But they belong to a special class of people that Austrians consider teppert, or slightly mad. Even more than Milan, Vienna is the heart and soul of opera land, the city of melodic Mozartian fantasy and thunderous Wagnerian pageantry. Every coffee house has its tables of self-appointed critics; taxi drivers know all the gossipy details of each new backstage feud. Though impoverished Austria badly needed more practical things after World...
Impelled by premonitions of his own death, the priest revisits his childhood home and pays calls on relatives he has not seen in years. Most of them belong among the Irish categories of the spiritually dead. His sister, characteristically, after one memorable lovemaking holiday, lovelessly married another man and has lived out her life as anticlimax...