Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...county grand jury of nine whites and 14 Negroes stood in an Atlanta courtroom last week as a judge empowered them to investigate the need for better crime-and gun-control legislation in Atlanta. In their first official act, the jurors then elected a foreman: the Rev. Martin Luther King...
...Orchids soon wilted. They sang their two big numbers at Manhattan's Paramount Theater, but when the audience screamed for more, they could offer nothing better than a reprise of Buddy's big song. Back West on the nightclub circuit, the group sometimes outnumbered the audiences; even in Jimmy Bowen's home town of Dumas, Texas (pop. 8,500), they could not fill the town auditorium. "We didn't have a follow-up act," drawls Jimmy today, "and that ruined our careers...
...improving communication in the world of higher education, Change includes a striking open letter from one student leader that seems to rule out much hope for such improvement. Michael Rossman, who served on the steering committee of the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, contemptuously denounces "the myth that better communication would solve everything," opts instead for the tactics of confrontation. There is "no campus where significant political advance or educational reform or movement work has taken place that is not also familiar with confrontation," he argues. "You've got to let yourself get angry-and maybe violent...
...feel satisfied." "It's a matter of practicing," explains one young member. "As long as you're chanting, you're in. If you stop chanting, you're out." Members can chant for anything, any time, and the newer ones often concentrate on material wants: a better apartment, a new job, a new car. Members even testify to such minor miracles as praying a traffic cop out of a ticket, or a professor into a passing grade. One San Francisco hippie who joined the sect prayed for-and got -"a pocketful of drugs," then tried for something...
...student extremists, take their prosperity for granted and never knew the general privation of times past. Gianni Agnelli has a keen understanding of the social dissent. "The people of the older generation compare the life that they had with the life of the young today and see how much better off they are," says he. "From that grows the gap in understanding. But the young are saying that we could have it better, and this is certainly true...