Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with the blotter edge. All this time, his feet are planted wide beneath the desk on the plastic shield. Always he looks srtaight at me, never glancing at his geometric handiwork. Blink, damn, you, blink...
Composed of aging S.D.S. types who can rattle off terms like "participatory democracy" and "new radicalism" without a blink, the new group aims to do for teachers what S.D.S. did for-and to-students. In other words, it means to define their political roles, uncover university complicity in "war research" and "social manipulation," meanwhile aiding those teachers whose jobs are jeopardized because of their revolutionary beliefs. In New York City, one group of young radicals set up a Summer Liberation School near Columbia University, while others have signed up for the city's eight-week Intensive Teacher Training Program...
Jarvis didn't even blink. "When that happens, maybe you should ease off the process," he replied. Everyone laughed, politely, but incredulously...
SCHOENMAN'S eyes blink as he praises Russell. "There have been various changes in his thought, but also a thread of consistency--his opposition to arbitrary authority and his defense of the oppressed." He denies that Russell is senile, and lists "this Renaissance man's" current projects: the second and third volumes of his autobiography, an "updating" of the New Testament (based on current events), a book of epigrams, and adaptations of his short stories for the stage...
...managerial class." Even those in managerial jobs in most areas are usually lower-level executives. "If I let big business here poke me in the eye once for every Negro vice president it has," says a Los Angeles civil rights worker, "I'd never have to blink...