Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is my car." said the girl. She paused. "It's not just mine." she added. "It's mine, it's your, it's anybody's who wants...
Everyone (not just the dropouts) does, at least, try to theorize about what will make a real difference. But what does it come to? A friend of mine recently decided that the only meaningful revolution will come when people refuse to submit to the Rules. (Dropping out of the Rules to transform, the Society that made Them.) Greater theorists have reached similar conclusions: Marcuse, now Roszak. A significant refusal requires revolutionary courage and action by many people. But there are few revolutionaries...
...National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967, the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act, the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act and the Wholesale Poultry Products Act, all of 1968. This week Congress will almost certainly pass the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, which Nader and a group of insurgent mine workers supported against the wishes of complacent union leadership. The act contains stiff preventive measures against working conditions that can cause black lung...
...machines, styrofoam cups, plastic spoons, and so forth, along with a huge box of packaged coffee-cakes. Each package had one yellow roll with sugar frosting smeared against the Saran wrap that held it and a pat of margarine on a blue paper napkin. I ate the frosting off mine with a cup of coffee and sent it and its wrapping to join millions of others under the bleachers...
...lieu of more articulate criticism, though, maybe I can pass on how a friend of mine tells how he was once invited to dinner at one of those girls' junior colleges that dot Commonwealth Ave. Led by his date into a gorgeously panelled and chandeliered dining room, he exclaimed "Isn't this beautiful!" "Yes," his date sadly agreed, "it's beautiful, but it's too bad I'm too dumb to appreciate...