Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...core of the act--Title I--was intended to funnel Federal funds into the schools of the nation's poverty areas. But now, after three years have passed and about three billion dollars have been distributed to local school districts under the title, its effect on the children it was supposed to help remains uncertain...
...staff, Ebony is too smugly middleclass. To which Executive Editor Herbert Nipson replies: "Some people expect Ebony, because it is a Negro magazine, to print propaganda for every black program that comes along. But we're not an organ for anybody. Not for the N.A.A.C.P., not for CORE, not for S.N.C.C...
Nonetheless, the idealists who have formed the core of his support look upon him as an incarnation of their aspirations. This is especially true among the young. Last week, when his staff sought to cut costs by "furloughing" 75 workers, most of them youngsters, the majority of them insisted on staying on without even the usual meal allowances. McCarthy draws much of his support from those hungry for a new kind of leadership, from some Republicans, and from independents of both conservative and liberal bent. For many in and around the New Left, an anti-war candidate sympathetic...
Frank claimed that these kids were not the hard-core hippies, whose only desire was to be able to spend the night in the open air. "Most of these kids here are SDS," Frank said. "They're trying to organize hippies. The real hippies are these people," he continued, pointing to the small circle which was still sitting there as it had been for hours, now singing "The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind." "And most of the real hippies," Frank said, "have gone elsewhere. They don't want to fight with the police...
...there was dissension among the demonstrators. A small hard-core group was standing on the Common proper, goading others to join them, but most of the others remained in the relative safety of the pavement circling the Common. The police cars made their move. It was total confusion. Kids who had been listening to the tall New Yorker with sideburns now didn't know which way to go. Were they supposed to run, or stay? Some people scattered. Some began to battle the police. It was impossible to tell whether this was a public protest, or a battle...