Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Objective thinking is harder work and a lot less soul-satisfying than passionate indignation. I think President Johnson's public image no more endearing than anybody else does, but I'm increasingly convinced that few men in our history have been more unjustly vilified. Having no idea what I would do in his place, I will continue to squelch whatever whimsical criticisms, unweighted by mental effort, get voiced to me. This is not to say that I think Johnson has usually been right; only that he stands fair to be martyred by a generation of critics who have...
Detail for Detail. That hint of arrogance hurt Stokes. His campaign manager, Dr. Kenneth Clement, was to rue later: "A lot of people who did not like the idea of a Negro mayor were waiting for an excuse to vote against him." It was not merely an error but a near calamity. In the early opinion polls Stokes had led Taft by 30 points and more. Now he was running scared. He dropped his supercilious needling and swung into substantive issues. To answer his opponent's charge that he had been a poor legislator, Stokes produced a testimonial that...
...Your Clinic Will Burn." Furious, Dr. Giorgi stormed into the OEO's offices in Washington with a plan for a medical center outlined on a piece of note paper. OEO bought the idea, and within a year, through the University of Southern California's medical school, had funded the new Watts Health Center. Built on land leased from Los Angeles for $1 a year, the center was opened last month. At the dedication ceremony, a young firebrand of Watts's Black Power movement introduced Dr. Giorgi to the crowd. As she mounted the podium, the young...
...Street was a catalyst. It was a political awakening for Boston's six to seven thousand Puerto Ricans. Most of them had come straight from the island a year or two before; others had spent a few months in New York; they couldn't speak English; they had no idea of their rights or duties under American law; and, politically, they were helpless...
Clark Byse, professor of Law and chairman of the Joint Student-Faculty Committee, said yesterday that the idea had been proposed to the Committee by George T. Frampton, a second year student...