Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politician's imagination. The times seemed made for Nixon, yet despite his urbane demeanor and finely honed organization, there remained until the end the possibility that tension and fatigue might combine to bring out the rabbit-punching infighter that the "new Nixon" had kept so firmly in control. For very different reasons, Humphrey's battle for survival also was a fascinating study. Chronically late, incorrigibly loquacious, hopelessly disorganized, the Vice President had seemed to everyone but himself to be a walking case of rigor mortis until the final stretch, when suddenly, somehow, the impassioned humanitarian soul of Humphrey...
Cleaver has a deliberate control of words which he drops on the page like little bits of acid. "The policeman and the soldier will violate your person, smoke you out with various gases. Each will shoot you, beat your head and body with sticks and clubs, with rifle butts, run you through with bayonets, shoot holes in your flesh, kill...
...other side of the solution involves the blacks' search to think for themselves. The desire for courses in black history, the political and economic awareness spreading in the ghetto, the black banks, local control of schools--all these, Cleaver would say, are efforts by black people to fight off a feeling of mental impotence which is just as serious as the white alienation from its body...
...Wisconsin Board of Regents, which governs the University of Wisconsin in much the same way that the California Regents control Berkeley, met over the weekend and passed a resolution condemning the Daily Cardinal for using "obscene and abusive language." The Regents have threatened to close down the Cardinal presses--which are in the University School of Journalism--unless the Cardinal submits a statement of policy acceptable to the Regents that will serve as a control over further Cardinal language...
Today the Cardinal will publish a special issue with a front page editorial challenging the Regents to try to make good their demands. Already SDS and the WDRU have volunteered to work together in a student coalition to demonstrate general defiance of University control...