Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crowds of demonstrators were gathered informally at about six plazas downtown to hear speakers or to listen to rock concerts. The largest crowd was in front of the National Gallery, about two blocks from the White House...
Police then used tear gas to disperse the crowd, most of whom retreated back to Dupont Circle, where they were again surrounded and dispersed with tear...
Although YAF will not march, "some of us are going to brave the crowd anyway to pass out literature, until things start getting violent," Evans said...
Writing in Encounter, Sociologist Riesman argues that the children of the lonely crowd-whether protesting the war or campaigning for Eugene McCarthy-reject adjustment to the mores of their affluent elders as "immoral compromise." But there is danger in their idealistic revolt, implies Riesman. Since most men are not "heroes or saints," he notes, the zealots of the new generation may have to modify their ideals. Otherwise, they run the risk of becoming "cynical about themselves or deluded about their society, or both...
Agnew personally is a talkative, gregarious and kindly man, but he keeps slipping unwittingly into crudity. As when he branded the Baltimore Sun's Gene Oishi "the fat Jap" during the campaign. Or when he told a Chicago press conference: "When I am moving in a crowd, I don't look and say, 'There's a Negro, there's a Greek, there's a Polack.' " Or when his aide, C. D. Ward, barreled through a glass door at San Clemente and ended up with permanent facial scars; for fun, Agnew started calling him "Wolfgang...