Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People Power...
...certain critics of America, the masacre will be added evidence that th U.S. is an immoral, unprincipled and racist power; others will insist, with a shade more justice, that the action mocks the pious official rhetoric about saving Asia from Communist aggression in th name of humanity. The most pertinent truth, however, is less accusatory and more difficult for the U.S. to accept: is that Americans as a people have too readily ignored and too little understood the presence of evil in the world...
...synergistic effect of masking the popular consciousness of evil. Traditionally, evil has been something distant, Wholly Other, rather than an enemy within. When Rap Brown complained that "violence is as American as cherry pie," most Americans dismissed the charge as the aberrant nastiness of a Black Power fanatic. When the Kerner Commission proposed that America was a racist nation, the U.S. public reacted with "Who, me?" protests of innocence. But there is a dark underside to American history: the despoliation of the Indian, the subjection of the black, the unwise and probably unmoral insistence on the enemy's unconditional...
...Massachusetts legislators have introduced a bill which would have the state use its power of eminent domain to take over Harvard Stadium for use by the Boston Patriots Football team...
Northeastern's first line of senior Dave Poile and juniors Crawford Bell and Rich Costa is experienced and fairly talented, but even at that it could be outplayed by any of the Crimson's four lines. Harvard has both balance and power up front, but when Poile's line takes a rest, so does the Husky scoring threat...