Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hopelessness & Helplessness. Statistics at best can only delineate the bare perimeters of poverty. The sensations of being poor are scarcely comprehensible to the 170 million Americans who are not poor: the hollow-bellied, hand-to-mouth feeling of having no money for tomorrow; the smell of wood smoke that hangs over Southern shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk...
Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT, expressed the feeling of the academic world when he said, "The question 'What have I done?' is one that we may well ask ourselves, as we read, each day, of fresh atrocities in Vietnam--as we create, or mouth, or tolerate the deceptions that will be used to justify the next defense of freedom...
...Bitter Aftertaste," the title of TIME'S gloss on student unrest in Germany [April 26], describes what at least one German conservative had in his mouth after reading it. You assert that the students had "found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined." What evidence is there that they had imagined violence to be romantic-a few months after one of them had been shot in Berlin? I see diverse ingredients in our students' attitude toward violence. Of romanticism I see no trace. Also: Is society's strength measured...
...score of corpses, including pregnant women and months-old babies, charred, disfigured and mangled. Amid the tearful cries of keening women, workers carried into the morgue mashed human fragments piled on stretchers, and limbs and torsos balanced on shovels. The next morning, clutching handkerchiefs over nose and mouth against the stench and carrying freshly sawed unpainted wood coffins, the families lined up patiently under the trees to bear away their dead for burial...
...Supreme Court. Still free pending a hearing for a reduced sentence, Ginzburg is anything but penitent. For months he has been expensively promoting a new magazine, Avant-Garde, which promises to emulate if not outdo Eros. One page of a recent ad shows a girl, eyes shut, mouth open, in ecstasy. On the opposite page is prose to match, describing the magazine's contents: "An orgasm of the mind. Total immersion in sensual pleasure. Love on a mink blanket...