Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vomit from Hell. The issue reaches beyond New York. Washington, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and other large cities are also grappling with the problem of how to run a sprawling urban school system. Like New York, they are trying or considering experiments in decentralization, and some of the arguments for such experiments are persuasive. Citywide school boards tend to become remote and impersonal; parents, particularly in ghetto areas, want more and more to have a say in choosing teachers for their children. Yet the problem of how to delegate powers to local boards without disrupting a whole system can be staggering...
...were to believe Tom Wolfe's chronicle of his recent life--responsible for a lot. Hippies, for example, communal living, flamboyant costumes, strange puns for people's names (like Stark Naked, or Mal Function, or Black Maria), new words (like "bummer"--a term borrowed by Kesey from the Hell's Angels), and mixed psychedelic happenings (with the difference that at Kesey's happenings--The Acid Tests--you were served...
Gorey: Humphrey's audiences are responding differently now. Even his disorganization is helping him project more warmth. Humphrey is a "people man. He gets his ideas by and while talking. His campaign has an engaging "what the hell, let's see what happens" atmosphere about...
Fentress: There is undoubtedly something in the Humphrey campaign that you don't see in Nixon's. I think his campaign style-a combination of "Give 'em hell" and "Pour on the bread and butter"-is just catching on. Winning is another thing...
...past decade's debacle--lots of academic China experts had their fingers equally much in the foreign policy pie. How to go about establishing political innocence I really couldn't say. But one thing is clear: most of the top academics in Chinese studies have had a hell of a lot to do with arranging the mess...