Word: needed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Wallace is not a racist. He is a man who is determined to put our country back on its feet, and has the guts to step on toes that need stepping...
...present crisis of soaring costs and limited resources for higher education, only the federal government can supply the funds which colleges and students need. Lyndon Johnson and his Administration have recognized the problem, but his war budgets have not been able to provide the assistance he admits is necessary; this summer the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education reported that federal aid to colleges and students should be at least double its present level. President Johnson has appointed a study group to develop plans for a comprehensive government aid program, but its future depends on the attitude of the next Administration...
...fabric of Columbia was twisted and torn by the forces of political and social revolution outside the University. Columbia's geographic situation symbolzes the relation between white and black, affluence and poverty, youthful reform and established order. The University's need for physical expansion in an urban center creates inescapable tensions but its relations with the community had further deteriorated because of its apparent indifference to the needs and aspirations of its poorer neighbors. The handling of the gymnasium controversy thus came, even somewhat unfairly, to epitomize the conflict between the spirit of the civil rights movement and the attack...
...they nearly die of gratitude. To be a real human being you need something to give your life purpose and take your freedom away, you need something to belong to, the corporation, the force, the platoon, the kiwanis, the brigade...
...Squad," with its unrecognizable caricatures of these scary kids, is reassurance for frightened adults. The images say that kids who reject the advantages offered them are not morally superior but spoiled troublemakers who will regret it later, that black people just need more of the old free enterprise system, that the Army makes a man of you, that any of these hippie kids would just jump at the chance to play ball, to get on the bandwagon, to join the team...