Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event no one has yet answered your question as to what the Russians are doing in the Mediterranean, they are making it hard for Navy captains and their wives to enjoy an occasional quiet week ashore...
...Question of Cooperation. In all his ventures in the foreign field, Nixon will find a vastly changed structure of relationships from the patterns that prevailed as recently as 1960. As Harvard Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger noted in the Brookings study: "The United States is no longer in a position to operate programs globally; it has to encourage them. It can no longer impose its preferred solution; it must seek to evoke it. We are a superpower physically, but our designs can be meaningful only if they generate willing cooperation." And, in view of the present mood...
...Angeles police inspector who was present as an observer thought that "the restraint of the police, both as individual members and as an organization, was beyond reason." But of the Wednesday night battle in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, the same official said: "There is no question but that many officers acted without restraint and exerted force beyond that necessary under the circumstances." As his policemen went out of control that night, the deputy superintendent in charge had to pull berserk officers off battered and bruised demonstrators, shouting at them: "Stop, damn it, stop! For Christ's sake...
...ideology or program. Yippies accept no leaders, not even their own, and Daley and his men could scarcely make much sense of yippie manifestos like that of Abbie Hoffman, who saw the movement as "new phenomena, a new thing on the American scene. Why? That's our question. Our slogan is Why? You know as long as we can make up a story about it that's exciting, mystical, magical, you have to accuse us of going to Chicago to perform magic...
...important, the lab exposed a not-so-latent racism in U.S. society. There were bitter confrontations between militant blacks and self-righteous whites, stark views of ghetto living conditions, including one film shot and narrated by Gordon Parks, and cutting satire, such as a Negro-slanted aptitude test (sample question: "How long do you cook chitlins?"), By chance, PBL's camera crews tracked Martin Luther King throughout the last three months of his life; the result was a stunning obituary that last summer was voted the best TV documentary at the Venice Film Festival...