Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GARLAN MORSE: I don't think the nontariff barriers-import quotas, discriminatory taxes and the like-are understood by the public or by industry or even by Government. But these barriers are so important that just to renegotiate the tariff scales back and forth to bring some equilibrium does not solve the problem...
...allowed to speak for themselves, their speech and memory becoming the source of the book's authority and success. Its not always terribly exciting-the chapter on Jim, a Haight-Ashbury hippie, is made tedious by its subject's now fairly conventional opinions-but when the reporting breaks forth it does so with an energy that approximates the frenzy of good, crazy fiction. "Groovy" Hutchinson, the drifter who was murdered alongside Linda Fitzptarick, comes on like a Ken Kesey hero, a con artist who ultimately can't scramble back into the society that has maimed him. Jerry Rubin appears...
...because the events that keep reoccurring throughout this series of lives-the '54 Supreme Court Decision, the assassination of John Kennedy, Mississippi Freedom Summer, Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, San Francisco's Human Be-In, Vietnam Summer Project, the March on the Pentagon, Chicago-form the incantation that called forth the radicalism of the seventies...
...Sweepers. Against this background, Stokes and the council have put forth separate tax proposals-both defeated by the voters. The cutbacks came quickly: 1,700 city employees have been laid off, recreation and health programs were reduced, Clevelanders now have to haul their garbage to the sidewalk for collection, and street sweepers are unavailable to clean up after the collectors. No policemen or firemen have been laid off, but none will be hired, and the police academy has, been closed. The hiring freeze is certain to erase the 2.1% decrease in crime in downtown Cleveland, which Stokes' administration...
Then Cowan piped up. What did the Premier of China think of the U.S. hippie movement? Replied Chou, the onetime revolutionist: "Perhaps youth is dissatisfied with the present situation. Youth wants to seek out the truth, and out of this search various forms of change are bound to come forth. Thus this is a kind of transitional period...