Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...animal farm have stirred it up as much as possible. Nixon's speech shot down our feeble hopes and drew the battle lines, as it was surely intended to do. He defined anti-war protestors, in effect, as traitors to reason and the democratic processes of the greatest nation in the history of the world...
...WOULD take a hopelessly long time to convince a majority of the nation that the NLF is right, and we don't see how we can wait much longer for the war to end. The political games of 1968 pushed the shame out of our minds only temporarily-we had been licked in the streets and convention hall of Chicago, but that couldn't put us off forever. Now we are spoiling for a new fight...
Though he has made a limited concession on the permit question, the aura of manufactured crisis still hangs over the demonstrations. Having created the possibility of conflict, the Administration began marshalling a virtual army of police. national guard and regular troops (28,000 from the Washington area. with unspecified numbers on call from beyond a 100-mile radius) to protect the city from a mythical siege. As the government poured out its information about the "violent groups" coming to Washington, it kept the nation abundantly informed of the rising numbers of troops it is holding in the wings...
...position paper stressed the "primary" role of designers and planners in helping to solve the nation's urban problems. It charged, "our professions are largely irrelevant to the crisis of poverty and racial injustice...
Even while acknowledging the difficulty of determining optimal urban policy, some skeptical critics downplay the so-called urban fiscal "crisis." They contend that a disproportionate amount of the nation's wealth is concentrated in metropolitan areas, and add that this is particularly true for the New York area...