Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nineteen sixty-eight was a knife blade that severed past from future, Then from Now: the Then of triumphant postwar American power in the world, the Then of the nation's illusions of innocence and virtue, from the more complicated Now that began when the U.S. saw that it was losing a war it should not have been fighting in the first place, when the huge tribe of the young revolted against the nation's elders and authority, and when the nation finished killing its heroes. The old Then meant an American exceptionalism, the divine dispensation that the nation thought...
...Like a knife blade, the year of riot and revolution severed the U. S. from its triumphant optimism, exposing a confused, divided country that was fighting a war it could not win. The dramas of 1968 shaped the world we know today: heroes were gunned down, the Soviets trampled Prague' s spring, Richard Nixon was elected, and man for the first time orbited the moon. See NATION...
...death of Michael Griffith, who had the misfortune to wander with two friends into the mostly white community after their automobile broke down. Shouting racial epithets and waving a baseball bat and tree limbs, about a dozen youths confronted the black men. One of the blacks pulled a knife. Griffith, 23, was chased onto a highway by some members of the gang and was killed by a passing car. The youths then severely beat one of Griffith's companions. Defense attorneys described the crime as a simple "fight," and pointed out that two of the victims had criminal records...
Nearly everyone likes "Mac Tonight." The original song--"Mack the Knife"--is bland while the new version is MacRight. It is fun to watch a guy with a moonhead stop in the middle of piano playing to belt out "dinner!" like a hungry ten-year-old Liberace...
...every bloody cow and rancher I came across. I thought unless we got rid of them, the whole world would become desert. But that kind of solution was wrong and counterproductive. Simplicity is the only thing I defend. I'd like to live with just a tin plate, a knife and a rifle in the African bush . . . knowing that the earth and all the watersheds were healing . . . I could die happy then...