Word: damn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student fund that produced Emphasis. The articles, cried Representative Ralph Slate, indicated that some Alabama students "want to run the university like they do in Berkeley." Senator Alton Turner contended that Rose had "outlived his usefulness." Representative Gus Young, a Baptist minister, complained that Rose had used the word "damn" in a speech and asserted that legislators "have just as much right to defend Christianity and democracy as anybody else has to defend Communism." A bill was introduced in the legislature to ban any speaker at the university who is a Communist, advocates overthrow of the government...
...university fund-raising meeting, Rose tossed aside his prepared text and vowed to stand behind his students "as long as they are not vulgar, obscene or seditious." Declared he: "We in Alabama have an inferiority complex. We think everybody in the damn world is against us. We are cursing the land. This must stop. We have got to get along." As for himself, he warned "those who want to get to me" that "I'm not for sale, and the University of Alabama, so long as I'm president, is not for sale." Added Rose: "I want...
...recounted a once-familiar chronology and cleared up some of the misconceptions mass media unthinkingly thrust into our too open minds. Yet he has done more--too damn much more. He has tried, to relate and mawkishly analyze the most minute reactions of the President's family, friends, and official Washington. He has intruded on our recollections with hoked-up naturalism, and clogged our impressionistic memories with what he presents as cold fact...
First, there are parietals. Personally he doesn't give a damn what you do, but the University Police would catch you if he didn't; so for your own sake he's going to enforce the rules. (Vision of uniformed guards hiding in shadows or peering around corners, flashlights poised.) And then there are the spring rio's . If you get in one and get caught make sure it's a University cop and not a Cambridge policemen. The campus cops understand. Nine times out of ten they let you off. (Vision of a friendly, protective smile and perhaps...
...reputation of being a gut of little substance that the self-respecting avoided. Gill argues that talking explicitly about controversy isn't always the best way to equip students to talk about political problems--"you can't just describe economics--you've got to get down to working those damn curves to understand the problems...