Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unusual enough to give special weight to Kunen's more predictable indictments of society. "Leave me and my friends alone, bastards," he warns. "You're up against something here because we're young and won't bend and we're against you. We need good schools and houses for people to live in and it could be done and we're going to make this country do it. I don't get mad easily but I'm mad now and I'm going to stay mad until things change. You change...
Ordinary Soldier. Like most young radicals, Kunen does not try to offer any systematic solutions; he just wants people to be good to each other. "We're all together in this thing, so we could say all right, we're all kind of weak and bad but we're going to do the best we can and try to muddle through together because there's nowhere to go and there's nothing else to be. That way everyone could be fairly happy because no one would hate anybody. But man, talk about unrealistic Utopian impossibilities...
...thee" three times. The conference also took a surprisingly moderate stand on the Middle East. It refused to consider the demand of the El Fatah guerrillas for a jihad (holy war) against Israel - and pointedly explained that the word jihad also meant sacrificing one's self for the good of mankind...
Soviet officials encourage the new leisured masses to strive for kulturnost, or "cultivated behavior," which includes not only good manners and respect for learning but observance of the elementary rules of hygiene and sanitation as well. "Free time does not amount to idleness," warns Sociologist G. S. Petrosian. "It is the time devoted to study, the raising of [occupational] qualifications, self-education and self-development." As Pravda puts it with typical elephantine grace, "To care about the cultural recreation of the people is, above all, to ensure the conditions making it possible for the working people to spend their free...
...technique blends pragmatism with good Samaritanism. Just about anything goes, including drugs. "Sometimes you have to sock it to 'em," says Dr. Bruce Danto, director of the Detroit Psychiatric Institute's Suicide Prevention Center, a pioneer in a dramatic form of crisis intervention. "You don't have five years for the patient to come up with his own insights. You have to realize that you can't solve all the problems of the world. You just try to patch some...