Word: mucks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trashing readily attract participants; but they are not very meaningful. Only political organizing, performed diligently and persistently by an army of college students working in local communities, supported by a barrage of information dispensed through local media, can break through the glossy shell of Vietnamization and let the muck ooze out. The job is difficult; the absence of an outstanding political candidate increases its difficulty. But glamorous teach-ins cannot end American aggression in Indochina. Hard work...
Most of the other radical video groups cover a broader range of material than does PVT. Raindance, as well as groups like San Francisco's Mobile Muck Truck and New Year's Global Village, covers both culturally and politically radical events...
...Unfortunately, there is but a minority of people who really care about our country's health. Their cries for reform are lost in the fights for higher wages and prices spurred on by the apathetic majority and those who now wallow in the muck of affluence. Rather than live in this society of increasing crime, pollution, racial unrest and inflation, they leave the country...
...this guise, Agathon saves the book too. With his rambling wit, his irrelevancies, rages, blunderings, unfairnesses, with his tender-rough efforts to jerk his friend Pecker to wisdom through the muck of the world, he emerges as one of those scapegrace saints who have adorned literature from Socrates to Gulley Jimson. Robert Wernick
...Japanese call the foul brown sludge hedoro, combining the words for "vomit" and "muck." Like an indisposed pagan god, the port bottom belches huge bubbles of methane gas and alkaloid matter to the surface. In July, the hydrosulfide stench caused workers aboard a dredger to faint. Naked fishermen diving for abalone near by broke out in a mysterious rash attributed to the tainted water. As a result, Fuji's problems seized Japan's headlines...