Word: kents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pierce himself was a Kent State student in 1970, and was mobilized as a member of the Guard's Troop G, 107th Armed Cavalry, when Ohio governor James A. Rhodes ordered the Guard on campus...
...former Ohio National Guardsman called before the Kent State federal grand jury refused to testify yesterday and asked for full immunity, his attorney said...
What ever became of the Generation Gap? It's closed, say two university political science professors. M. Kent Jennings, 39, of the University of Michigan, and Richard G. Niemi, 33, of the University of Rochester, interviewed more than 1,000 high school seniors and one parent of each of the students in 1965, then reinterviewed both groups last year. The result: a convergence of outlook in eight years. Solid majorities in both groups had voted Republican in 1972 (68% of the parents, 59% of their children). Concern about civil rights had diminished sharply in both groups (from...
...from the ground war to the Christmas bombing to the secret bombing of Cambodia to building General Thieu's torturous prisons and continuing to finance his attacks on areas he doesn't control. And five years (so far) of subversion of democracy at home, from the Mayday internments to Kent State to bribing the Pentagon Papers judge to letting complaint monopolies even more alone than usual to bugging the opposition's headquarters to ignoring or defying the courts and the Congress. Not to mention all the rest...
...higher reality was at hand, but like a burst of light in a dark room, it proved to be illusory. Poverty programs, free universities and Camelot gave way to Kent State, Cambodia and urban terrorism. The toll of death and deterioration set in: The Kennedys, King, Dak To, Khe Sanh, Watergate. The clenched fist replaced the V sign as idealists turned cynical. Dylan and his followers withdrew into a more personal and private world. After a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 1966, Dylan moved to his home in Woodstock, N.Y., and switched from participant to observer to chronicle the halcyon...