Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro, a model of cool to the beats, is a rare figure in the hippie scene. "How can a Negro drop out?" asks a New York hippie. "He's there, at bedrock, all the time." The difference is reflected not only in the contrast between Norman Mailer's 1957 beat manifesto, The White Negro, and the "white Indian" affiliation of the hippies, but also in the apolitical nature of hippie philosophy as well. Mailer's model was a white activist who shared the Negro's sense of rage at injustice; the Indian whom many hippies emulate...
Russian leaders are torn between the two policies. As a result, Russia has made scant headway along either course. Certainly, the Soviets' client states have grown increasingly skeptical of Moscow's interest in their cherished "wars of liberation." By contrast, the overwhelming U.S. commitment to South Viet Nam has persuaded many nations in Asia and elsewhere that Washington is willing to support its commitments...
Ideological capital of the rebel students is West Berlin's sprawling Free University (enrollment: 15,000), founded in 1948 with American support. In contrast to most tradition-bound German campuses, it has been a model of relaxed student-faculty relations and loose campus rules. Among the many student organizations, the most articulate political voice belongs to the Socialist German Student League. There is also a clutch of small, far-out radical cliques, such as the Maoist "Kommune I," in which men and women share worldly goods and sexual favors...
...contrast, Gaza and West Jordan teemed with Arabs, and the conquerors hastily set up military governments headed by Israeli brigadier generals. In the war, the Israelis had surrounded Gaza so quickly that few soldiers or civilians had a chance to escape. General Moshe Goren and his military-government staff first had to disband all enemy units and ferret out potential terrorists, sending the most dangerous ones to the Athlit P.O.W. camp south of Haifa. Then he turned to the task of supplying food and water to the abysmally poor people-mostly jobless Palestinian refugees who had been living...
...began policing one another's behavior. A pair of eight-year-old girls rang doorbells and collected $14.39, which they sent in with a note of apology, saying that "hopefully, most children are taught kindness and gratitude for the love and beauty of God's creatures." "The contrast is unbelievable," said Seattle Park Superintendent Edward Johnson. "It's as if the public is trying to deserve its new zoo." And as if the children themselves had learned more from the episode than anyone would have dared imagine...