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...promises to "kill the pigs." If full employment is not available. Cox explained, "then we must take the means of production and put them in the hands of the people." By "we," Cox did not mean the moneyed liberals in his audience. One of the ladies gasped her dismay that her head might be among the first to roll when the revolution came. "Oh, no," the wife of another Panther reassured her. "You sound as if you're afraid. There's no reason for that...
...punks! Our institutions are tremendously vulnerable. What are we afraid of? Of the Government? Of the police? Of Congress? No, for God's sake, we're afraid of the individual, of the beast masquerading as man." Some less volcanic thinkers?among them many liberals and academics?have also expressed dismay. All institutions are fallible, says Columbia University's Jacques Barzun, and unending criticism can bring down the entire structure of society...
...sign of idealism and spiritual values. The result, predict astrologers, should be a profound change in the way people think and act. Just possibly, the astrologers may be proved right. In the short run, the clash between new values and old probably will produce uncertainty, confusion, frustration and dismay. In the long run, this decade and the next may well constitute an historical era of transition like that which followed the Middle Ages and preceded the Renaissance...
...most countries friendly to the United States, the initial horror and revulsion over news of the My Lai massacre had by last week turned to more quiet dismay and introspection. Editorial and public response, while not forgiving, was philosophical. Typical was Milan's Corriere delta Sera, which sadly noted: "Every country on the old continent has a fine collection of skeletons in the cupboard...
Friends of the symphony bridled. Several orchestra members signed an anti-Steinberg telegram to the Globe. The protest went unheeded. Similarly, a Symphony Orchestra board of trustees member wrote to Herald Traveler Publisher Harold E. Clancy expressing dismay that the paper had hired "one of [Steinberg's] young imitators. We think that perhaps the Herald might be in a position to alter its course...