Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuation intolerable. We each believed in the vestiges of Harvard's reputation enough to think that the nation might consider us the pride of her youth going up in smoke. What is more, we believed in goodness. Ideas like this spin black webs around your mind, and I know that in certain instants, I believed that if we followed through we could, of ourselves, end the war in a month. And so, to the question, what in the world can I do to end the war I suddenly had a terrifying and righteously beguiling answer. I could kill myself...
...after Nix-en's victory, moved his wife and two daughters to a colonial-style house in suburban Virginia. He sits in on many top-level meetings, but he has little, it any, say about what will be made public. That seems fine with him. "Nobody wants to know what Ron Ziegler thinks about anything," he says. "The worst thing a press secretary can ever do is shoot from the hip. I'd rather say, 'I'll check it out' " -is one of his frequent responses to delicate questions...
Deloria is in a unique position to know. A young, tough and dedicated member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, he is, at 36, a former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians and an aspirant lawyer. He is also a wittily perceptive writer, as he shows best in a provocative chapter devoted to "Indian Humor...
...wanted U.S. forces to get out of Viet Nam, 85% wanted U.S. forces to get out of America. The source of Indian humor, Deloria makes clear, is a kind of desperation that makes for grim laughter: "If they bring that War on Poverty to our reservation, they'll know they've been in a fight...
Termination and Tribalism. The book ranges from the origins of scalping to differences between the new black and the old red nationalism. But Deloria really wants to talk about topics that few white Americans know anything about -termination and tribalism...