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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very worried about the dangers of a kind of political activity that ignores the ironies and ambiguities of life, including political life. And I am worried about the apparently inevitable things that happen to all institutions, the legal calcifications and rigidities that occur in even the most militantly free and flexible of groups once they have obtained power, once they start consolidating themselves and become self-protective. These are problems that I think transcend even the New Left; they're human problems...

Author: By Marion E. Bodian, | Title: Robert Coles on Activism | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

...meant this book to reach middle-class white children. I wasn't really trying to describe Negro children or their view of the world. I wanted to describe through the activities of children how some of these confusing social and political events occur, what gets them going, how ambiguous and tentative and accidental a lot of them...

Author: By Marion E. Bodian, | Title: Robert Coles on Activism | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

DESPITE the obstructionist tactics of France (which is generally opposed to the change, but, if it should occur, wishes to be part of a board regulating the granting of SDR's--an annoying and arrogant, if not illogical, position), the SDR will probably be approved by the fixed proportion of IMF members. It could be in effect as early as next year...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Money by Fiat | 5/15/1968 | See Source »

...whether a Negro is going to take over, but which Negro. With that, you're right back in the framework of American politics." Another question is whether Negroes, along with Newark's white ethnic-minority groups, can keep their tempers long enough for the peaceful change to occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Script in Newark | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...they say, most people are so indifferent to sound that they are not even aware that many sets have tone-control knobs Still, the fact that thousands of viewers also own high-powered stereo rig: suggests that they may well object to the feedback, spotty pickups or imbalances that occur when Carol Burnett drowns out Jack Jones in a duet, or the band on The Ed Sullivan Show blasts through a crooner's ballad. To compensate, about one-third of the singers on TV practice "lip sync"-mouthing the lyrics to a prerecorded sound track. But this leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineering: Cole at the Controls | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

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