Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty soporific going. The Yearbook mistakes leaden prose for weighty thought. Sample insight: "The exigencies of the moment make-speculation about the future seem superfluous." Yeah, guys, it's been exigent...
Harvard supported development of the property to add to the City's tax base, he said, "but we've been opposed to this density from the moment...
...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...
...auto factories. City blues begin in Detroit. The heavy beat of electric blues is the beat of the machines that ground the Negro down. It is the sound of the piston, the rhythm of the steel press. And the life of blues is the arpeggio of release, the moment when a few high beautiful notes free themselves from the beat and dance and dream of freedom...
Another midget, a boy this time, lollypop stuck to his palm, arms upheld by baloons tied to his wrists, ready for flight, came over to tend to his sister. For a moment there was a joyful reunion...