Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bigotry - a moral sin against blacks that will have to be paid for sooner or later as surely as the economic and social sins. But as the nation recognizes the le gitimate demands of the black revolution, it must also acknowledge the legitimate fears of the white reaction. Otherwise, feeling threatened, the marginal whites themselves may threaten a society that they feel has betrayed them. It does little good to condemn - and further alienate - pre cisely those working-class whites whose good will and co operation are vital to achieving racial peace and urban progress...
...that time he began sending false radio messages. It appears that he intended to fill the old log with fake entries and throw the new one away when he landed. And while his jottings became more distressed, the tape recordings he did for the BBC became increasingly chipper. "I feel in tremendous shape," he taped a week before his last navigational log entry. "There is nothing like going to sea for getting rid of all the poisons in your body...
...girl is forcing the issue." The romantic backlash has been operating for two generations on audiences?and on his female costars. Says Actress Vera Miles: "They used to say of the old West, 'Men were men and the women were grateful.' Well, that's how he makes you feel as a woman...
...first time in his life, Chain-Smoker Wayne began to feel kinda poorly. Pilar persuaded him to consult a doctor. He dropped out of sight for a few months, then surfaced after a successful operation at Good Samaritan Hospital to utter his most quoted line: "I licked the big C." He was minus one lung, but his energy had not diminished...
Another thing that bothered Wayne was the war. He was for it. When ordinary men feel that way, they sound off at home or in saloons. Wayne did it in a picture. The Green Berets was probably the only prowar movie made in the '60s. It was so pro that New York Congressman Benjamin S. Rosenthal accused Wayne and the Army of conspiracy. The movie, claimed Rosenthal, "became a useful and skilled device employed by the Pentagon to present a view of the war which was disputed in 1967 and is largely repudiated today...