Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Klux Klan membership has increased by 10,000, mostly in the North and the Midwest, to a nationwide total of 29,500, and concluded that irban riots and the "black-power" threat had lent credibility to its shabby hokum among those "who previously would have neither listened nor heard." Misdirected Negro militancy also gives those who might otherwise be ashamed of their anti-Negro prejudices a ready-made excuse and self-justification...
Among the scrub pines and lakes of the Manitoba wilderness, where only the cry of the loon could be heard a few years ago, the stillness was shattered by the hissing and hammering of the world's largest nickel mine and smelter. In the Alberta foothills northwest of Edmonton, the ring of sledge hammer on steel counterpointed the polyglot curses of Portuguese, Greek and Italian gandy dancers, pushing the Alberta Resources Railway 111 miles north to the coal and gypsum deposits of the Peace River country...
Most of the many casual rumors circulating about the course are more myth than reality. All applicants have heard stories about the dangers involved in taking the class, so of course they tend to latch on to the incidents of aggression when they arise as proof that their fears were justified. As one section leader in the course commented, "most of the people who are afraid of ending up 'casualties' of Soc Rel 120, are usually those who are most afraid of their own aggressive tendencies; they are more concerned with hurting someone and exposing themselves, than with being hurt...
There are brakes built into the course which keep discussions from becoming too intense: the room-full of observers serves as a constant reminder that what is being said is heard not only by the members of one's own group, but also by professionals in the field and other members of different sections. The non-directive leader occasionally reminds the class of the observers behind the mirror when the discussion becomes too personal. Another brake on the tendency towards hostility is the rivalry among members for group leadership. Often when one leader-candidate is attacking a vulnerable member...
...psychological nakedness, and they handled themselves in the wise-cracking, vaguely bullying way men have always reserved for that condition. Their comments on the officials and the hawkers were full of logic so well whittled that its point disappeared; when they came to a bit of merchandise they had heard of they often bought it with a grand flourish, thus recommending its advantages and their expertise to friends. Most of them were feeling the gorge of possessive passion that comes when one is first deeply convinced that he is going to Harvard; the only flaw is that the beer mugs...