Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always amazing to see the kinds of things that are said and written under the guise of being liberal; your editorial of March 19th ("hiring Blacks") is a curious source of amazement because its assumptions, like those of many liberals, are incredulous, naive and simply condescending...
...candidate-come-lately. Kennedy is already frozen out of the earlier ones-including Massachusetts, which he might have won easily-and his opponents have a head start in others. Partly for this reason and partly because of his desire to display "harmony" with Eugene McCarthy, Kennedy arrived at a curious strategy. He will support McCarthy in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, but run against him in Nebraska, Oregon, California and perhaps elsewhere. Prospects in the more significant races...
...Curious Silence. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller moved ever closer to entry in the Oregon primary, which he now has to win just to stay in the race with Nixon. Last week 33 top Republicans gathered in his Fifth Avenue duplex to advise him on strategy. The council included Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew, Rhode Island's Governor John Chafee, New York's Mayor John Lindsay and, improbably enough, Barry Goldwater's 1964 running mate, former Representative William E. Miller. All but four of the 33 counseled Rocky to declare his candidacy and begin an all-out campaign...
Black people are becoming aware that their negative self-perception is a result of white attitudes and not of black behavior. The violence of the ghetto is a result of the frustration of black people working within the qualifications which white society sets for meaningful participation. Thus, in a curious way, violence amounts to playing the only role that the established society has left open for the disenfranchised...
More than 500 spectators, most of them curious students, paid 50 cents a head to watch the historic struggle. The McGill team was neatly dressed, after the English fashion. Seeing their opponents so nattily attired, the Harvard players were mortified for they wore no special uniform. The players had not felt called upon to indulge in such extravagance. Each man wore dark trousers, a white undershirt, and a magenta handkerchief tied around his head, as was the custom with the Harvard crews...