Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might of the Federal Government unless welfare officials stopped discriminating against Negroes. Selma, of course, had responded, doing everything it could to make the White Niggers--and the black ones too--uncomfortable when they came to town. "Your parents and your grandparents are gonna be so ashamed," they would hiss at the workers. "Someday they's gonna find out you been livin' with niggers and making' trouble." Others were more direct. "You goddam white niggers," they would say. "Why dontcha just get out of here and leave decent folk alone...
...WESSEL sat on the side of the stage in Lowell Lecture Hall Friday night smoking a cigarette, staring at the audience in disbelief. A leader in German SDS, Wessel had spoken for about an hour on his movement, its goals, its background, its accomplishments. Midway through his speech, the hissing had started. The people who had been talking in the back began to hiss. They didn't want to hear Wessel. They were bored, they held up watches to tell Wessel that he was taking too much time. This was his first encounter with a Harvard audience, and Wessel...
...have then acted, by doing such things as draft counseling or resistance, developing new courses or seminars, or in some cases by actively working for McCarthy. But it is true of a good many others who see it as fashionable to be "radical," to criticize, to yell, to hiss, without thinking about what they are doing. Perhaps these are the people who are unwilling to make the complete break, and who will, for the most part, eventually "sell out" and find ways to spend their lives perpetuating the establishment and the materialistic good life that they now criticize because...
...Golden Age of subversion" is over, says Editor William F. Buckley Jr., and he almost seems to regret it. Gone are traitors of the magnitude of Alger Hiss, witnesses of the eloquence of Whittaker Chambers. Still, today's radical resurgence, thinks Buckley, has created a swarm of lesser subversives who bear close watching. To keep an eye on them, he has started a four-page newsletter, Combat, to be published twice a month...
...than ordinary people. Early in the course this summer, the lecturer was talking about mixtures of molecules. He pointed out that if you have a bunch of apples, pears, and bananas all mixed up, that's different from just having a bunch of apples. This was good for one hiss from our audience expressing a preference for more abstract thinking. The lecturer's stern reply: "If you don't like fruit...