Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...angry, the answer lately has been protest, demonstration, not. And violence does bring a sense of power does achieve change-though more often it brings only violent reaction. There are other ways, and they work "Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down,' says John Gardner Yet even in despotic societies, good men have managed to rise against the odds and become the architects, not of revolution, but of peaceful change. This is true not merely of the obvious geniuses and unique innovators but of seemingly ordinary people...
Given such power, the disrupter for good is all the more impressive. He is the Doer, an everyday activist who resembles Camus' rebel, one who retains "a strange form of love" for the society he attacks. He wants to improve it, not kill...
...space, there was a near crisis on earth. "We've Apollo just had a little thrill here in the Apollo control center in Building 30 in Houston," reported the Manned Spacecraft Center's Paul Haney For more than a minute, he said, there had been a power failure, knocking out lights, control consoles, screens and instruments at the center. But the essential communications systems and the computers that stored and evaluated flight data were powered by NASA's own generators and continued to operate; they never stopped digesting telemetered information from monitoring stations, ships and planes...
...fact that Hatchett had been fired as a substitute teacher in the New York City schools for taking his sixth-grade class to a Black Power rally in memory of Malcolm X did not unduly alarm N.Y.U. It considered Hatchett's writings on Afro-American culture and religion sound enough to outweigh that error. But apparently no one at N.Y.U. had read a rambling, hysterical attack upon Jewish domination of the schools that Hatchett had written for the journal of the city's African-American Teachers Association. He charged that "antiblack Jews" and "their power-starved imitators...
...that Zagarell is twelve years too young to meet the legal requirements for Vice President was the least of Donovan's objections. Mrs. Mitchell and Zagarell are Communists, and the Communist Control Act of 1954 says that their party "should be outlawed" as the agent of a foreign power. Under the law, said the Minnesota Attorney General, the Communists do not have "the rights, privileges and immunities" of ordinary political parties...