Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midweek, as word began to circulate that the nomination might be off again, Finch was at home relaxing when the phone rang. It was a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, who asked him what he would do if Knowles was rejected by Nixon. "He'd have to find another Secretary," Finch was quoted as saying. (He subsequently denied making the remark; still later he admitted having said it, but insisted that he had not really meant it as a serious statement...
...late Robert Kennedy's example, have embraced Cesar Chavez as a brother. The so-called Beautiful People, from Peter, Paul and Mary to the Ford sisters, Anne Uzielli and Charlotte Niarchos. are helping to raise funds for the strikers. That support is one of the few issues that find Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, iconoclastic Writer Gloria Steinem, and liberal Senators Jacob Javits and George McGovern in total agreement. Ralph Abernathy lends black help to what is becoming the Brown Power movement...
...their native Mexico and find a better life. Whatever their present condition may be, many obviously find it better than their former one, as evidenced by the fact that relatives have often followed families into the U.S. The Chicanos do not speak in one voice but many, follow no one leader or strategy. Their level of ambition and militance varies greatly from barrio to barrio between Texas and California...
...security, and fringe benefits are few. If they are migrants, the workers must frequently live in fetid shacks without light or plumbing (though housing, bad as it is, is frequently free or very cheap.) As a result, many have moved to the cities, where even unskilled labor can find work at decent wages...
...situation persists. Their amoral reactions to setting and other people causes increasingly violent outbreaks. An early sequence beginning with one car scraping another ends in a man shooting at the couple. A girl dressed as Emily Bronte, counselling the couple to pay attention to natural forms (pebbles, grass) to find their meanings, is set afire after she declares "End the daily murder! Cover flowers with flames!" In this sequence--as in sequences where they ignore a figure reading Rousseau, and interrupt a beautiful rendition of a Mozart sonata--the characters are merely destroying the cultural background of their bourgeois society...