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...corollary to this pop law of the sixties is another, which the left has been slow to learn both in our time and in times past. When deceit and social neglect become cushrined as principles of government, they do not breed revolt. A decaying social order is not the fertile breeding ground of social change. It is a barrea wasteland in which visible movement disappears. This wasteland is the home ground of Nixonian politics Nixonian politics must be defeated if not this time then soon
...tent-peg." Long-haired kids noisily sought kicks from nature-with a little help from drugs. On July 4, 1970, pot-smoking youths clashed with armed police in the first riot ever in a national park. In Washington, the National Park Service reacted by dispatching a new breed of rangers, more Peace Corps volunteer than scoutleader...
...prison, a small group of rioters exploded in a "spontaneous burst of violent anger" at a guard. When a faulty bolt unexpectedly gave way as they shoved on a gate, they suddenly had access to the rest of the prison. "The rebels were part of a new breed of younger, more aware inmates, largely black, who came to prison full of deep feelings of alienation and hostility," the commission concluded, but they were not "revolutionary conspirators...
...what closes at the end of one week; sitcoms must go on week after week. Acknowledging this, Yorkin and Lear are entertainers who brandish the weapons of satire but use them sparingly. Their Bunkers and Sanfords are sheep in wolves' clothing -domesticated in every sense from a tougher breed of British precursors...
Ironically, it was man who loosed the troublesome bee in the first place. In 1956 Warwick Kerr, a Brazilian geneticist in the state of Sāo Paulo, decided to breed the perfect honey-producing bee. He wanted to combine the best attributes of the hard-working but highly aggressive African bee (Apis mellifera adansonii) with gentler but lazier European strains. Before the hybridization could occur, 26 swarms of African bees accidentally escaped, mated with native bees, flourished and spread. The offspring, known as Brazilian honey bees, are precisely what Kerr wanted to avoid; they have inherited none...