Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...echo the opinion of Charles Gutherie, a cement finisher from Los Angeles: "You take Nixon and Humphrey and shake 'em up in a bag and they come out the same?a couple of namby-pambys who are going to keep giving our money away to other countries while they let a bunch of punks run wild in this country." Says Noble Olson, a Cincinnati civil engineer: "Nixon maybe is the better of two evils. But I am through voting for the better of two evils...
...talk rarely varies in content, but the format does. Wallace simply chooses from his compendium of evils as they come to mind. "Now I want to say something about Viet Nam," he will say by way of introduction, or "Let's talk about law 'n' order." While the crowd is cheering, he will often spit quickly and inconspicuously into a white handkerchief...
...profession most intimately tied to the war is revealing indeed. They have, of course, expressed their vague, somewhat inarticulate discontent with what is going on "over there." Yet, there is an unmistakable hint of Business As Usual. Throw the CIA out of Harvard? Don't be immature or rash--let's work this out rationally; after all, we want results...
...half employees for every ten girls--a rather high ratio for people with very little income and young enough to need little service, especially when the cost of this luxury could soon rise above the ability of many to pay. The obvious answer is to let Cliffies take care of themselves...
...more practical matters, let the record show that this reviewer found both movies atrociously filmed in ugly color, edited with the precision of a two-year-old turned loose with a jar of peanut butter, and inadequately acted by teen-agers who plainly considered themselves better than the people they were portraying. Brooke Bundy, the pretty blonde in Young Runaways, appears to have too many teeth, and Leigh Taylor-Young, the pretty blonde in I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, learnt her eight lines and spoke them with something approaching conviction...