Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grass fire. Without warning or provocation, they said, the police opened up in a murderous fusillade of shotgun, pistol and rifle fire. Said Charles W. Hildebrand, a student: "At first I thought they were firing blanks, but then somebody, yelled, 'Oh Lord, I'm hit!' I felt a blow, like a brick, on the back of my leg. I went down and got up and I was hit again, in the hip. I got up and ran, and I was hit under the armpit." Of the 30 victims, 28 were hit in the side or back, including...
Young explained to us before the trip began that "I felt that before I really unleashed all my feelings about the media, I really ought to make one more try." He called it a "sensitizing tour," and organized it partly to convince the national press that he has moved the league into a position of greater militancy and cooperation with grass-roots black movements. Far more important, he wanted to expose this group to the physical setting, the chaotic swirl of self-help activity and the continuing problems of the nation's depressed areas. The result was a bewildering...
Gothic Eccentricity. Unlike many Catholic writers, Miss O'Connor never felt caught in the traditional bind between religion and art. "When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist," she said, "I have had to reply ruefully that because I am a Catholic, I cannot afford to be less than an artist." What she did was make literature her highest office by accepting the Thomist dictum: "The good of an art is to be found, not in the craftsman, but in the product of the art" "The fiction writer," she observed, "writes...
...Japan's irrepressible economy makes its power felt around the world, the U.S. is both cooperating and colliding with it. U.S. industrialists who suffer the sting of foreign competition-in textiles, steel, electronics-view Japan as the chief villain. On the other hand, many businessmen look yearningly toward Japan as an enormous market for American goods. Last week two significant developments took place that will strain relations in one area of business and possibly smooth them in another...
People aren't being presented the issues, that's why. If the average American--Well, 'average' is a bad word--if most Americans knew how it really felt to live in a ghetto, they would want to do something about it." Whether or not this qualifies as misguided liberal optimism, it probably does explain why Gilligan has kept on trying in Ohio politics...