Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police raid became both the demonstrators' and the spectators' most vivid experience with the university's power. The students had no empathy for the way Kirk's mind works, so they protested in their own reality. After the police came, they considered their relationship to the administration, as they knew it, a violent one. Or, at least, they held Kirk responsible for actions they considered outrageous while not considering his perspective. It is because most students at the college shared this mood of anonymity that they became such avid opponents of an administration which could not understand their tactics...
Though every candidate swears that he makes up his own mind on the issues, the fact is that polls have a marked influence on political pronouncements. Dick Nixon's pollster, Joe Bachelder, reported that Oregon primary voters were worried about education, public works and inflation-and Nixon quickly stressed those issues. Pollster John F. Kraft warned Robert Kennedy before the Indiana primary that he had the Negro vote sewed up but faced trouble from blue-collar whites; Kennedy shifted his campaign emphasis from help for the poor to law and order...
...simply amazing that the Yearbook could turn out neither readable nor thoughtful pieces this year. Why not a review of mixed-media productions here instead of that sorry shopping list of the props for Prince Erie? Why not something by a senior whose mind is blown on the draft instead of Neal Katz's duller recollections...
...think the object of criticism ought to be the policeman. The police are caught in the middle, between those who rise up, often without any purpose in mind other than the moment's rage, and on the other side the white intellectuals who often put the blame on the police rather than on more fundamental things that are responsible for the police action--action which is often, in the existential moment, absolutely necessary. I would aim criticism at people of far greater influence, people with a lot more power and social respect and status, a lot more money and--ironically...
COLES: I know that this book will not be the easiest book for a lot of children to read, but I think it will get things going in their mind, even if they don't really totally comprehend everything that I had in mind when I was writing it--that it as least a beginning...