Word: conning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans said "pretty things" to the South, but then appointed Earl Warren to the Supreme Court. "The national Republican Party, for the first time since Reconstruction, put the bayonet in the backs of the people of Arkansas." Richard Nixon's Southern strategy, he added, was an attempt to "con" the South into repeating the mistake...
Meanwhile Johnson and Rostow con ferred by phone with Secretary of State Dean Rusk. They were not sure the subject was Czechoslovakia, but they suspected as much. At the President's regular Tuesday luncheon a few hours earlier, a major topic had been Soviet military preparedness for an invasion. Rusk went ahead to a Democratic Plat form Committee hearing...
Unfortunately, all this promises more crises and convulsions in 1968. The con fusion tends to confirm extremist notions that U.S. institutions are moribund, that the only solution is to uproot society and start afresh. Only the fatuous deny that too many courts, legislatures, federal agencies and universities have grown unmindful of their duty to liberate rather than constrict. Yet in advanced countries, institutions cannot be eliminated; the infinitely complex problems of crime or poverty require organized experts. There is no Gordian knot waiting to be slashed. To yearn for apocalypse and reject the real task-to reform failing institutions...
...delegations caught the spirit and issued challenges to their own credentials. Demonstrators, pretending to be a chain gang, beat themselves with belts and chanted: "Oh, it hurts so good, I don't want to do anything about it. But I like to talk about it." Lost in the con fusion was a motion to declare the whole congress unaccredited and send everyone home...
...they're not ashamed to respond." Furthermore, "they feel I'm one of their own." That is because Cash, lean and tough look ing at 36, sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck. Though he is not an ex-con himself, his empathy with jailbirds is a natural extension of the at titude expressed in his songs, that life both in and out of prison is a kind of sentence to be served...