Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence, and called, in the most vigorous language at his command, for an end to the "insane traffic" in guns-a trade, as he observed, that makes instruments of death as readily purchasable as baskets of fruit or cartons of cigarettes. Almost as he spoke, Congress sent him a crime bill with a gun-control section, but the measure was so flabby as to be almost as scandalous as the lack of any legislation in all the years. Congress, on Johnson's request, also passed emergency legislation authorizing Secret Service protection for the other major presidential candidates (cost...
Americans, contemplating both the inexpungeable crime of Kennedy's killing and the prevalence of violence in their proper perspective, can best maintain the proper processes of American political life by eradicating the conditions that trigger the assassin's finger...
Equally inflammatory to unstable minds is the rising hyperbole of U.S. political debate. Race, Viet Nam, crime- all lend themselves to verbal overkill, not so much by candidates as by extremists: the John Birchers, the Rap Browns, the most ardent war critics, the Ku Kluxers. The evidence is everywhere. In Dallas, Assistant District Attorney William Alexander snarls on a TV show: "Earl Warren shouldn't be impeached-he should be hanged." Cries Rap Brown: "How many whites did you kill today?" Lyndon Johnson is routinely excoriated as a mass murderer. Robert Kennedy was branded by San Francisco hippies...
...finally his use of the adjective "Negro" to connote crime and degeneracy reveals some ill-concealed white racism. The hypodermic needle he describes as "the tool of the Negro slums". He describes seeing a "pretty girl with straight blond hair" meet a "goateed Negro" in Harvard Square, talk about drugs, and then disappear together into a Harvard building--none too subtly hinting at miscegination...
WHAT tales of sleuth and intrigue, crime and espionage once lurked the quiet streets of Cambridge. Now forgotten, vestigially commemmorated by half-hearted panty-raids and defiant cross-walk-ins, the grand days of Harvard pranks seem relegated to history along with the Gold Coast...