Word: longer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your so-called "intellectually concerned" and "idealistic young," no longer enlist in a cause for the sole reason that it may be "tangible and satisfyingly anti-Government and anti-Establishment." We oppose nuclear power because of the all too real threat, not only to our own lives, but to those of our children. Susan Grundy Poughkeepsie...
...harder for him to be a headman than it was for his father. Local leaders have become assassination targets. Even though he was jailed by the government for four years as a nationalist sympathizer, he can no longer be sure how his political record will be judged. He rarely sleeps at home; he rubs his long, thin fingers together to ease the stress as he talks. What "frightens me," he says, is the way harm can come from any quarter. If there is fighting in his area, he flees. "If the soldiers come, they might think I am the troublemaker...
...still has faith that black rule will eventually mean more land for blacks, who can no longer support themselves on their inherited parcels of worn-out acreage. "When I was born, the land was still good," he says. "There were trees and grass. Now there are just a few trees. We have used them for houses and firewood. We used to feed a family from one acre and sell what we grew on the other five acres in the market. Now it takes five acres to feed a family, and the remaining land does not produce enough to buy clothing...
...challenging hiring decisions, and even demanding to review private dossiers on faculty applicants, Government affirmative action officers cause "misappointments" to tenured faculty, doing harm, warns Shils, "that lasts for a long time, longer than the villainous harassment of Senator Joseph McCarthy." Shils worries too about the size of federal research grants. Though they allow for "overhead" expenditures such as office equipment and utilities, the grants do not cover the full costs of research since they fail to cover deficits incurred in the original training of faculty members...
...political rebels of the 1960s are no longer without a cause. They have discovered rent control. Behind the overwhelming endorsement that voters of affluent Santa Monica, Calif., gave rent control two weeks ago was the Campaign for Economic Democracy, a group started by Tom Hayden and his Oscar-winning wife, Jane Fonda. They are promoting rent control up and down California. As Fonda told a tenants' group outside San Francisco last week, "We're not trying to screw landlords out of their profits, but we have to find a way for people to get a roof over their...