Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anthems and eulogies, the bitterness and the indignation, the fears and the rumors, the mind-numbing saturation of television and radio coverage engrossed the consciousness and conscience of a nation. The pronouncements of official bereavement, the calls for constructive action, for conciliation, for wisdom, all were unexceptionable. The United Nations lowered its flag to half-staff?an unprecedented tribute to one of Kennedy's modest official rank. Pope Paul announced at a formal audience the shooting of the junior Senator from New York. Condolences came from Charles de Gaulle, Aleksei Kosygin, Queen Elizabeth, Marshal Tito and scores of other world...
...Kennedy got over Communist watching, shucked the blinders of Cold War interventionism, and found ghetto residents more enlightening Congressional witnesses than labor racketeers. Sometime in the decade before his death, Bob Kennedy put the Red threat and the New York Daily News headlines in the back of his mind, took a long look at the American people and decided the needed help. He may not have lived long enough to transmit to his countrymen the compassion and concern he discovered in himself. Maybe that's why Yenan looks attractive.C...
...member of the Harvard Corporation, R. Keith Kane '22, told the CRIMSON in an interview last month that the Corporation grants the honorary degrees "with the idea in mind of bringing honor to Harvard. Thus we do not choose people who are controversial," Kane said. Kane is a member of the two-man subcommittee of the Corporation in charge of honorary degrees...
...wall against the future, and suddenly 1968 was snatched away. Suddenly it became June, and there you were with the war that you told everyone you hated. And a government you never knew had decided your future for you. That was lousy and undemocratic, and back in your mind you remembered that the same thing had happened to people in Vietnam and in America and all over the world. And maybe it was an irrational reaction, but you hated your country for what it did and you didn't want to be a part...
...Class of 1968, has shown that it, like so many Harvard classes before it, is a gifted class. We have attacked our extra-curricular escapes with the same success. But to say that our talent indicates our state of mind is to ignore the truth. We have been a disheartening state of human affairs, confronting, especially in the last year...