Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then with another fear, conservative was this fear, he [Mailer] looked into his reluctance to lose even the America he had had, that insane war-mongering technology with its smog, its super-highways, its experts and its profound dishonesty ... he was tired of hearing of Negro rights and Black power--every Black riot was washing him loose with the rest, pushing him to that point where he would have to throw his vote in with revolution--what a tedious perspective of prisons and law courts and worse ... No, exile would be better. Yet he loathed the thought of living anywhere...
Stressing the role of student activism on college campuses, Pusey stated, "In the earlier period, liberating power was discovered in ancient learning. Now it appears to be coming rather from contemporary activity...
Alinsky agreed heartily, saying, "The law comes in as a rationalization after you have the power...
ANOTHER of Nixon's complaints has been that the Democrats let the Navy deteriorate. His favorite example of bureaucratic bungling is the Administration's decision not to give the carrier John F. Kennedy a nuclear power plant. He never says, however, that to be useful a nuclear carrier needs nuclear-powered escort ships. Two teams of nuclear escorts are being constructed, but in three years the Chester Nimilz will join the Enterprise as the second nuclear-powered carrier in the Navy. Equipping the Kennedy with nuclear power would have raised its cost by 50 per cent. Also the Kennedy could...
Costly projects like the ABMS and nuclear power for the Kennedy could indicate that Nixon has already decided where to spend the money now being appropriated for Vietnam after the war is over. But now he supports these programs without explaining how to pay for them...