Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what, perchance, did he mean by "Fat City"? The straights of the press were so bewildered that the White House press office felt constrained to come forth with a gloss. "Fat City: A state of mind characterized by mild to extreme euphoria, usually induced by a combination of salubrious climate and fortunate personal circumstances...
Whether the Arabs really mean it-in the Western, rational sense of meaning something-or whether they are merely caught up in a phantasmagoria of words, is beside the point. The Arabs have shown time and again that they are the prisoners of their hyperbole. Their refusal to accept Israel as a fact of life is at the bottom of the whole Middle Eastern conflict, of the war just concluded and of the diplomatic battles about to begin. If the Arabs recognized Israel, a territorial settlement would be relatively easy...
...explained later that the Administrative Board, which disciplines drug abusers, didn't really mean it was going to kick students out of school for simply using marijuana. The punishment would probably be academic probation, he said. Still, it was clear that the University was not fooling around. And even though the crack-down that druggies had been worried about all Spring never happened (as it did at Yale, Princeton, and Cornell, for instance), the Administration seemed to loom larger as still another menace both to casual joint smokers and to full-time acidheads...
...course there is one very good case against pot--it is illegal, very illegal. Possession can mean up to five years in prison, and in Colorado a person can be executed for selling drugs to minors, on the second offense. The University may not approve of the drug laws, but it has to enforce them. In fact, it often keeps outsiders from enforcing them--that is the advantage Harvard...
...lives which would do their parents proud," observed Paul Potter, a past SDS president, and Hal Benenson, of the Harvard chapter, in a recent paper on the "critical radical perspective." Despite the radical rhetoric and slogans, "there is very little comprehension of what the words that are slung around mean either as descriptions of the society or as prescriptions for action." Most SDSers, they observed, still accept the notion that "getting a majority of people to vote for something creates a force for change"; that the United States will criminate poverty without radically changing, and that the country cannot lose...