Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sacramento's shrieking, surging mob of some 100,000 sent Lyndon Johnson into transports of delight. After reluctantly escaping from his admirers, Johnson winked at aides, chortled and asked: "Now how was that for a crowd?" "Oh," replied a staffer, "pretty good." For a moment, Lyndon looked as though he had been smacked in the face with a wet mop. Then he realized that he was being joshed, and grinned more broadly than ever...
Whether the Faculty will divide sharply over the report or easily reach a consensus is, however, not entirely certain at the moment. Franklin Ford, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is one who is optimistic; he foresees little political infighting and expects the report to pass with only a few modifications or amendments. Ford, whose initial concern over the disarray of undergraduate education led to the formation of the Doty Committee, will chair the Faculty meeting and is one of the most influential supporters of the report. ("Its his baby now," said one member of the special committee...
Given the variety of possible objections to the report, one may ask, which ones will spark sufficient controversy to cause significant amendments? At the moment, except for those concerning the administrative reorganization, the answer is, probably none...
...example, the Massachusetts party remained sympathetic, but uncommitted, to the Party right through the convention week. Certainly LBJ's hostility to the FDP contributed to the ambivalence, but simple ignorance among Massachusetts delegates also played a part. At any moment, the FDP could have mobilized Boston's many civil rights groups into a concerted lobbying organization. But word never came from Jackson, and many Massachusetts delegates didn't learn the details of the issue until convention week, when hoopla and gossip precluded careful consideration of the question...
Usually this tension is ignored or alone in Mississippi. As he drives, his eyes constantly flit to the rear view mirror and he habitually notes the make and color of every car he sees, immersed in the work of the moment. Often it rises to the surface in a stupid argument with a fellow worker. And sometimes workers express it to each other, because they all feel it, "By accident I crossed into Tennessee today. Man, did it feel good up there...