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...grayness of the day came the epochal desegregation decision; through the fever of the Kefauver hearings the acute viewer could perceive a glimpse of the Mafia mind. Amid the treacle of Your Hit Parade, a few vinegary notes could be heard from the vulgarian disc jockeys, Alan Freed and Dick Clark. They were the early life signs of rock, a message that the Broadway melody was finished. In the art galleries, Jackson Pollock outraged onlookers with his whorls and spillages. On stage Elvis gyrated, and on screen Brando steamed. In the audience, the kids began to coalesce; an epoch...
...billboards demanding IMPEACH WARREN; religious traditionalists protested the court's 1962-63 bans on classroom prayers and urged the court to "put God back in the schools." Law-and-Order Candidate Richard Nixon invariably drew cheers in 1968 when he accused the court of rulings that freed "patently guilty criminals on the basis of legal technicalities...
Parkhurst is a young, energetic-looking fellow who might be best described as a radical capitalist. He believes passionately in free enterprise, and would like to see the trucking industry freed from the restraints of governmental regulation to allow owner/operators to compete with large trucking fleets...
...indifferent among those in the political middle usually take their cue from attitudes, not arguments. By objecting to someone's manner they are freed from having to consider his ideas. Granted their distaste is well founded toward those flamboyant types in every community who too readily take up a succession of fashionably unfashionable causes and as quickly lose interest when more practical people get interested. But it is hard to accept the accompanying assumption of the passive middle: that low interest and low involvement in public affairs are proof of superiority. The fastidious who deplore the kind of people engaged...
...exquisite subtlety: the more they succeed in supporting a settlement on Arab terms, the more their influence among the Arabs will decline. If there is a settlement in the region, the Arabs will no longer have to depend upon the Soviets for arms, and Soviet influence would lessen. Freed from confrontation with Israel, the Arab states would probably devote more of their energy to internal development...