Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Rittersdorf was suspended, the teachers are discussing possible legal action with their lawyers. Meantime, they hope that the incident will force the crestfallen board to come closer to meeting their salary demands. "It was like something out of I Spy," says one teacher. "But something good will come of this. The board will now have to listen to the teachers"-and presumably without bugs...
...continent and set it afloat in the sea, the island state might survive. But could the rest of the U.S.? California is virtually a nation unto itself, but it holds a strange hope, a sense of excitement-and some terror-for Americans. As most of them see it, the good, godless, gregarious pursuit of pleasure is what California is all about. The citizens of lotusland seem forever to be lolling around swimming pools, sautéing in the sun, packing across the Sierra, frolicking nude on the beaches, getting taller each year, plucking money off the trees, romping around topless...
...dozen red flags are waving in the air. A young Chinese woman grabs my arm. "The Red Guard," she says, and leads me away. "This is not a good place to be. I knew there would be trouble. All of Chinatown is divided." Divided? "Yes." We walk up the hill toward Grant Avenue. A young Chinese with long hair, George Woo, joins us. The year before, he helped start a radical youth movement called Wah Ching in Chinatown...
...followed Serra to California were lusty freebooters (Puritans, for some reason, had little zest for ?l Dorado). The trait they shared was an ability to build what Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. approvingly called "a special brand of democracy, one based on the notion that the best good of all was served by everyone looking out for himself...
...their pursuit of cultural enrichment, Californians, notably in the Los Angeles area, have created an institutionalized culture of enviable proportions. The County Museum of Art clocked an attendance of 1.25 million people last year. The Los Angeles Music Center provides an abundance of good music and drama. The U.C.L.A. concert and lecture series offered 575 events last year alone and drew an audience of 340,000 people...