Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopes resided in themselves, not in the white man's City Hall or in Washington. Explains Junius Williams, 25, black founder of the Newark Area Planning Association: "The rebellion kicked off something in a lot of people's minds. We've got power, they said, and let's do something about it." The cry shifted from "Burn, baby, burn!" to "Build, baby, build...
...egalitarian society today than it was when the "republic" was proclaimed 24 years ago, but politically as well as economically, progress has been scant. Writers and artists are limited by political requirements; a brief attempt at liberalization in the late '50s, patterned after Mao's short-lived campaign to "let 100 flowers bloom," uncovered so much resentment that repression was reinstituted almost immediately. Ho, however, was never blamed for repression: skillfully, he divorced himself in the public mind from that harsh entity known as government. As British Journalist James Cameron put it, the people seemed to say: "This or that...
...those who remain unconvinced by Senator Kennedy's explanation of the accident, an inquest may provide a few answers, particularly since the judge wants Kennedy himself to appear. Boyle has agreed to let lawyers for the witnesses into the courtroom to advise their clients when they take the stand, but he points out that Massachusetts law does not require him to do even that. Still, a question arises as to the fairness of the inquest. Some lawyers across the U.S. believe that there might be better ways to get at the facts...
...Fifth Amendment, they will be required to report all they saw that night. If they claim that a lawyer-client relationship existed between them and Kennedy, they still must testify, but they may not, by law, be asked to relate their conversations with Kennedy unless the Senator agrees to let them. To prove such a relationship, they must show that Kennedy asked for advice on a legal matter. Even so, neither would be immune from prosecution later if any evidence should be discovered that they were co-conspirators to a criminal...
...11th Hussars for marrying the daughter of a tradesman, and from Afghanistan-along with an entire British army, most of which dies in the process-for having as commanding officer the grossly incompetent Major General William George Keith Elphinstone. "Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such a ruinous defeat," remarks Flashman with customary charity. "We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again." At his best when savaging real people and slinking through real events. Flashman keeps his narrative moving smartly. Perhaps to make room for other sorts of depravity...