Word: onward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what happened last week was the wildest thing in Sultan's history since the 1884 visit of the Black Diamond Minstrel Company. By the thousands, strangers streamed into the tiny hamlet hard by the Skykomish (Big Sky) River, 48 miles northeast of Seattle. As the incredulous Sultanites watched, onward trooped hundreds of hippies, pseudo hippies, camp followers, hangers-on, even some ordinary-looking folks. Then came the musicians with the weird-sounding names and getups - Country Joe and the Fish, the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Frumious Bandersnatch, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Dr. Humbead...
...French are rarely consistent, but they are usually logical-in their fashion. From the lycée onward, millions of Frenchmen are exposed to the classic symmetrical syllogisms of cartesian logic; as a result, a Frenchman tends to dismiss whatever he disagrees with not because it is intrinsically wrong but because it seems wrongly reasoned. "C'est pas logique."-roughly, "No one in his right mind would think like that"-is a favorite saying. To the vast numbers of middle-aged who feared continued social upheavals, to the little old ladies in black who considered the old ways best...
...sounds of Phil Ochs were in your head and drove onward in a persistent fugue, calling to mind so many teach-ins, marches, gestures. "I ain't a marchin anymore"--"One more parade"--and you entered the Brattle; it was crowded, pulsing to some mystical rhythm, and the beautiful people were there, out of winter's woodwork for the afternoon's happening...
...THOMSON: I think many of the steps we took from 1949, 1950, onward seemed plausible at that time within the immediate circumstances although had we had better expertise available to bring to bear on the problem even in those early periods, I think that many of these decisions could have been avoided, would have seemed less plausible even in the light of the expertise at that time and, of course, in terms of hindsight this is a process of really collective error, cumulative error, collective guilt by both parties, a long and tragic and deep involvement, and at each stage...
...campaign song opened the convention--"Onward with Model Cities Go/Onward we go to meet the foe..."Residents voted by waving yellow cards, often while munching free sandwiches and shepherding restless children...