Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unmistakable sense of movement was in the air. Saigon hummed with nervous anticipation, Washington with barely concealed jubilation, Paris with electric excitement. For the first time since the Viet Nam peace talks began 51 months ago, there seemed to be genuine evidence of a breakthrough toward peace. Rumors of the initiative roiled through capitals from Canberra to London. The word was that Lyndon Johnson, in the last three months of his presidency, was on the. verge of ordering a complete bombing halt over North Viet Nam. At week's end, Johnson had still made no overt move...
Sproul Hall, the administration building that saw 700 arrests during the 1964 Free Speech Movement, was locked as soon as the students had been removed...
...like the 11 Senate candidates who are forming as a left wing coalition around McCarthy. No one is going to prevent the next Congress from being conservative, but the election of men like these will help. They could, in the future, form the nucleus for an effective left wing movement in this country, as Wallace has become the nucleus of the Right. Like the refusal to vote for Humphrey, Nixon or Wallace, their election would be a step toward honestly appraising how bad things are, and how much work there is to be done...
...most of the students who took part in "Tom Hayden's furtive conspiracy with history"--the Chicago demonstrations in August--probably did not share the beliefs of the "movement ultras," the article said. Thus, they might be induced to join "the cadres available for electoral politics," it continued...
...losing something. The teachers have thoroughly alienated both the ghettoes and the upper middle class of New York, both of whom favor decentralization. The controversy may have slowed the tide of decentralization by scaring the legislature into delaying consideration of a general plan for decentralization. But few admit the movement toward community control, now affecting almost every U.S. city, can be permanently stopped--without destroying the system entirely...