Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What hurts so, what is resisted, is the idea that it has come too soon, that our time has been cut short, that our revels, too, are ended. But that only argues more convincingly the case that indeed a period has come to a close...
There is no pleasure to be had in reciting the specifics, and no need either, as they are all too manifest. The idea of a great society has turned from something noble to something that somehow disappoints, and without even the dignity to cease trying to charm. The Negro revolution, once the very embodiment of our dignity and pride, has somehow fallen into the bonds of what the President has rightly called vulgar men, half educated in their utterances, and wholly sincere only in their destructiveness. Worst of all, the great dream of internationalism, the splendid succession of noble deeds...
...privacy, Geneen, Boonisar and aides carried on negotiations in a suite of Boston's non-Sheraton Somerset Hotel. Negotiations over, Geneen got a firsthand idea of how booming was his new business; at 1 a.m., with the suite's beds spoken for, not a hotel room was to be had in Boston. "To hell with it," snapped the new innkeeper, who then flew back to his New York apartment aboard an ITT Gulfstream...
...Ephrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his blind wife (Audrey Hepburn) become the unwitting owners of a dangerous dope-filled doll. Three thugs hoax the husband out of town and then try to coax the heroine into giving up the toy. With mounting anxiety she keeps insisting that she has no idea where it is. To break down her story, the crooks concoct a series of elaborate disguises, posing as old men, young men, policemen and friends...
...what was involved with the fellows who were admonished in this instance was a variety of things. All of them had handed in their student identification cards in sympathy with the sit-in. Some of them never even knew what was going on in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, had no idea that force was being used against an individual. Some of them were in fact picketing outside in an orderly way, which is one of the ways we hope students will express their dissent...