Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit of Selma, Birmingham and Montgomery was alive and marching again in the South. With an outward joy that failed to conceal their inner anger, blacks were singing, praying and chanting together in a common cry for social justice. Though relatively quiet for nearly two years, they have all along resented the shift of the nation's protest from civil rights to the war and the environment. But the Nixon Administration's Southern strategy, accenting law and order and a slowdown on school integration, rankled deeply. Then came armed peace officers blasting away with guns at Kent State...
Chaiki−a monkish-looking alumnus of the Living Theater−is also stripping the Tired Old Theatergoer to his pre-prop basics. Audiences bored with seeing curtains go up on living rooms that imitate their own will find themselves confronted by inner rather than outer realities. Chaikin says that he is striving toward "a theater of ritual dreams, phantoms, clowns, monsters." In other words, the pure joys, and terrors, of make-believe...
John Kennedy learned skepticism about intelligence estimates-and how difficult it is to keep Government secrets -the hard way, from the Bay of Pigs. Eighteen months later, during the Cuban missile crisis, everyone well-connected in Washington knew something was afoot, but no one outside his inner circle was aware of what the reconnaissance photos showed until Kennedy made his announcement on television. Even so, J.F.K. once reflected: "I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times...
...also compares ejaculation to a missile launching into outer space-adding, jauntily, that the sexual launching is into "inner space." This too-calculated irreverence and tasteless tone undermine Reuben's attempt to inform...
NOTHING more dramatically illustrated the dissent in the Administration's own inner circle than the letter that Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel wrote to the President last week. Leaked to the press even before Nixon had seen it, it criticized him for alienating the nation's youth and isolating himself from the Cabinet. "I believe this Administration finds itself today embracing a philosophy which appears to lack appropriate concern for the attitude of a great mass of Americans -our young people," wrote Hickel. Other Hickel observations...