Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest and most insistent declarations are from young men in their early twenties. They want a hand in running the programs. Some of the older leaders of the community refer to them as "radicals," but they dismiss the term. They are not the self-appointed spokesmen for the poor, they report. "We are the poor," says one. "Maximum feasible participation' means me, baby." They have demanded at least some power; they already have...
...leadership and influence. It is literate, has a good political memory and a special interest in foreign policy and it presently feels an intense sense of frustration over its difficulty in registering its views. Nor has this been lessened by the determination of the foreign policy establishment to dismiss these views with contempt...
...dismiss Kirk as merely a swinger who got lucky may be underestimating the Governor. He has shown himself to be an effective political organizer. Immediately after his victory last November, he rudely shook Florida's somnolent Republican Party into wide-eyed activity. He installed an effective state chairman, began a successful fund-raising campaign, and provided his largely inexperienced slate of legislative candidates with local organizational support and professional opinion-sampling services. The polls reported that the voters were unhappy about crime, taxes and Lyndon Johnson; Republican candidates denounced all three in energetic unison. The Democrats, by contrast, were...
...more realistic eyes than before. This profoundly affects the over-all Japanese attitude towards the China problem and towards all Asian problems. Officials of the Japanese government, who once seriously worried of the danger of a Chinese-American war, are now more optimistic because of the Revolution. They now dismiss the possibility of such a war and even dismiss the possibility of Chinese intervention in Vietnam now. Apparently the many elements which had composed the basic picture of China have been changing and with them the picture's color and texture have changed...
Occasionally the Center's programs makes headlines, but it prefers inconspicuous projects, like mapping the City's historical plaques. It would be easy to dismiss most of its work as trivial...