Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave Parkland Hospital with the President's body and return quickly to Washington. The Dallas County Medical Examiner insisted that a standard, perfectly constitutional state law requiring an on-the-spot autopsy should not be broken. The scene was painful and absurd. But to Manchester, "it was a direct confrontation between a diehard defender of state sovereignty and the representatives of the national government, with the body of the thirty-fifth Chief Executive lying between them...
Lowell composes much of the time in a startlingly direct, meaningful and contemporary idiom--so did Juvenal. Speaking of the ambitious man: "Your long list/ of honors breaks your neck." Of the emperor Tiberius: "Would you be/Tiberius' right hand, while he sits and suns/ himself at Capri, fed by eastern fags?" Of Cicero: "Yes, all in all, I like such pompous verse/ more than you force, immortal fifth Phillipic!" The passage on Hannibal moves exceptionally well, and is an obvious illustration of the epic note that reverberates hollowly through Juvenal's revulsion...
...that the Chinese will permit the U.S. to destroy the North: 2)it will thus fundamentally alter the possibilities for political organization in this country by destroying the limited war mythology which has been the basis for the liberal peace movement. As many more millions of people feel the direct life and death consequences of the war, there will arise a wartime atmosphere of crisis and political repression, affecting not only the peace movement but all other attempts to organize in the society. As the strategy of the Administration, though backed by enormous resources, is nonetheless a strategy born...
Tactically: We are divided about the specific form of our tatics; it is still debatable, still to be decided. Some of our thinking is that civil disobedience should be organized around the demand that Johnson make an unequivocable statement directly to the American people that he will not send ground troops into North Vietnam, for it is at that point that most Americans will be able to see the direct threat to their lives posed by the present policies. In no case, however, would we avoid condemning the war as a whole or retreate from our long-standing demand...
...trained by our books to look, not to listen or to feel. And seeing imposes a very different perspective from hearing or touching. The eye can only move in straight lines, taking in one word or one idea at a time. The railroad, like the eye, moves in a direct, unbroken path, and could only have been conceived in an eye-oriented society. The same is true for the assembly-line. And the Maginot line. And the reception line, and the linotype machine...