Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strategy of Panic. Humphrey's speech was a grace note in a week that had few of them. The amphitheatre itself was heavily guarded and isolated, like a prison camp or a nuclear installation. If the 10,000 young protesters were bent on raising a ruckus outside the hall, McCarthy's forces were determined to raise one within. "There is no floor strategy," said McCarthy's aide, Jerry Eller, only half in jest, on the eve of the convention. "Just achieve panic, and then...
...demonstrators, bent upon parading to the convention hall (Daley had refused a permit), regrouped in front of the Hilton, where they were surrounded by phalanxes of cops. Police warned the demonstrators to clear the streets, waited for five minutes for several busloads of reinforcements to arrive. And then the order was given...
...Standard. McCarthy's object was to cast Humphrey as the heavy: a hawk on Viet Nam, a racist for not having agreed to the peremptory disac creditation of several Southern delegations, an autocrat when it came to seating arrangements and telephone allocations. Humphrey's men, in fact, bent over backward to be equitable...
SOME historians, remarked Arnold Toynbee, hold the view that history "is just one damned thing after another." Himself a believer in orderly historical patterns, Toynbee disapproved of such an outlook. But 1968 seems bent on supporting what he called the "antinomian"* view...
Little Popes. Such reforms, Faure admits, probably would not have been initiated without last spring's student revolt. He thinks that the only opposition to his reforms will come from "some professors who have become sort of little popes." His biggest worry is that anarchist and Trotskyite students bent on revolutionizing all of French society will incite new violence, no matter what educational reforms are achieved. Even the more moderate rebels are a bit wary of Faure's promises. Bernard Herszberg, leader of SNESUP, a militant teachers' group, deplores the government's policy of "repression...