Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need for white commitment is greater at home than in the ghetto, since it is there that racism has put down its deepest roots. No Negro is ever going to change white attitudes by sodding some white suburban lawn-but white society is sensitive and susceptible to pressure from its own kind. "The basic thing the individual should do is start to change the institutions in which he is involved," says Thomas F. Pettigrew, Harvard social psychologist. "You change people's attitudes by changing their behavior first. And you change behavior by changing institutions-the institutions that require...
...Courier-Journal, "a violent nation of violent people, given to a disregard for life that must shame decent people here and throughout the world." Most papers declared that it was time for a nationwide soul searching. The assassination"demands the most sober reflection," editorialized the Los Angeles Times, "the deepest national self-examination...
...people," pledged Charles Evers, as he stumped his Mississippi district seeking its congressional seat. Carrying his fight to the people via TV, the brother of murdered Medgar Evers insisted: "I want to represent all the people of Mississippi." But the face on the tube was black, and in deepest Dixie, Evers was defeating himself. The votes came flooding in last week to a patently predictable...
Wallace is likely to carry Mississippi and Alabama, may win Louisiana and Georgia as well. Outside those strongholds of the Deepest South, his chief impact may well be to help re-elect Lyndon Johnson by siphoning away Republican votes. Last month in Washington, in fact, Florida's G.O.P. Governor Claude Kirk charged that Wallace was being promoted as a candidate by Democrats close to the President. Kirk's conspiracy theory gained some credence when some of L.B.J.'s operatives quietly encouraged loyal California Democrats last December to promote the former Alabama Governor's drive...
Nine years ago, Podhoretz' friend and literary confidant, Norman Mailer, brashly announced in Advertisements for Myself that he was embarking on "a revolution in the consciousness of our time." He predicted that his writing would have "the deepest influence of any work being done by an American novelist in these years." Like Podhoretz, he was asking too much, but he has at least gained the fame and riches that his friend is still seeking. Lacking Mailer's style, his sense of irony and his skill at infighting, Podhoretz has several more books and years of exhibitionism...