Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Julian Bond, who left us with at least one good memory of the Democratic convention in Chicago...
After Woodward left, mother and daughter sat up in their beds talking. They were still awake at 4 a.m. when a man who identified himself as a detective knocked on the door and said he had information about an auto accident involving a man in a white Ford. Thinking that Woodward had been hurt, Mrs. Mackle opened the door and found herself confronted by a masked man carrying a shotgun, and a smaller person wearing a ski mask, who, Mrs. Mackle thought, might be a twelve-year-old boy. After binding Mrs. Mackle hand and foot, the kidnapers seized Barbara...
...Left and New. Yet he argued that war critics had a duty to offer realistic suggestions about how the U.S. might extricate itself from Viet Nam. As elder statesman of the Old Left, he viewed the New Left with some mistrust. Said Thomas: "I by no means denounce all civil disobedience, but some of the forms of it advocated and practiced by some members of the New Left seem to me to do more harm than good to the cause of peace...
...force. In the present circumstances, the vast majority of the officers feel that the armies need ail the strength they can get. Though Fidel Castro is not their idol, South American youths, who represent by far the fastest-growing segment of the population, are swinging ever more to the left. The officers, who mostly embody conservative, lower-middle-class views, hope to arrest that movement with tough government action. They are also thoroughly disgusted with civilian politicians, who have failed to cope with the urgent problems of their countries. Trained in their own staff col leges or U.S. military schools...
...conference of yippies and New Leftists in Denton, Mich., a legendary Digger named Emmett Grogan hurled the yippie challenge. As Hoffman recalls it: "All of a sudden he erupts and kicks the table over. He knocks down a girl, slapping SDS'ers right and left. 'Faggots! Fags! Take off your ties, they are chains around your necks. You haven't got the balls to go mad.' " For some reason, the New Leftists were not charmed. Leaders like Tom Hayden continued to talk owlishly of "imperialism" and "cooptation" ("I thought he said copulation" deadpans Abbie...