Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer was delivered in force. Into John F. Kennedy Platz on a chill grey afternoon swarmed 100,000 West Berliners-a crowd ten times larger than the students had been able to assemble. They brought homemade placards, shouted encouragement to the U.S. and set fire to Communist flags. Some incensed demonstrators even assaulted a score of hapless hippies. "We won't let our free Berlin be trampled," Schütz told the crowd. "We fight back...
Such extreme styles may never attract more than a very special audience. Ever since the demise of the grey flannel suit in the early 1950s, a revolution in menswear has been forecast as regularly as the lifetime light bulb or a new Nixon. Until lately, men's fashion changes have added up to little more than slimmer trousers, side vents, a return of the shaped, double-breasted suit, and frilled shirts-worn mainly by actors. Lately, however, there have been signs of a real change in attitude...
...Belleville, five miles down the road. The population, according to Bobby's sister Judy, 20, is "about 1,000, if you count the dogs. And about 100 if you don't." The only industry is the cement plant. And the only dash of color in the grey landscape-since Bobby left-is a huge red, white and blue billboard that proudly proclaims: POINT ANNE, BIRTHPLACE OF BOBBY HULL, WORLD'S GREATEST HOCKEY PLAYER...
...difficulties lie deeper than just interesting these "ultra-super nominalists" in meaningful political activity. One disillusioned Executive Committee member blamed the club's impotence on those who view the organization as a stepping stone for future political careers. "They range from pseudo-new-Leftists in grey flannel suits to those who would be in SDS, but are too timid to affiliate with it for fear of hurting their budding political careers," he said. "Reluctant to voice any effective platform, they present a generalized liberal view centered entirely around elections, with no conception of extra-political social means of bringing about...
...subject matter, there is the expected melange: the French moodiness of assorted epochs, German Idealism, the early Lukacs and the sad, grey condition of Eastern Europe. The formal discussion of ideology takes up less than 50 pages, albeit 50 dense pages. Though many of the succeeding essays illustrate points raised in the initial section, none does so in the least systematically...