Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVENTUALLY we'll realize that the rain isn't going to stop. Saturday's good weather was a final taunt, merely a parody of Harvard football weather to remind us of a lost era. Someone will probably point out that this rain started after Nixon's speech, and that it rained quite a bit after his election, too. But, remembering the simian grimaces, the compulsive wiping of a sweaty upper lip, the glazed smile after fluffed lines, we'll realize that Richard Nixon just isn't in the rain-maker league. Then there will be the handful of optimists...
...point May told the demonstrators, "Your facts are not true," but he also said that it is "quite conceivable that there are injustices and irregularities in our employment system which might be found by students and otherwise overlooked." He said that he wanted such injustices brought to his attention, but added that, in his opinion, no "specific allegations of injustice [had] so far been brought forward...
...Well, if we can't ask questions, there's just no point in this press conference. See you later." And all the city reporters at the front of the table start...
...white radicals had no sense of actually making a revolution. You had all sorts of people in the movement for all sorts of crazy reasons. Very few said, I'm in this for good. I'm going to risk my life making revolution. We've come to the point where it's necessary to weed out those who really don't want a revolution...
HOWEVER, there are more substantive reasons why a crisis atmosphere prevails. Accepting the skeptics' point that there is presently a disproportionate amount of wealth in metropolitan areas, one cannot overlook the dynamics of annually balancing the local budget. Things do tend to get worse over time. This is explained by the relatively simple concept of a "fiscal gap" or a "fiscal imbalance...