Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Udall Quiet Crisis...
Lately there has been a great deal of talk about the political exhaustion of the left. Some people see an apocalypse, "the end of ideology." Others like Sartre, find it impossible to combine "philosophical despair with political activism." And still others take a quiet second look at pet programs of big government--ugly housing projects inhuman superhighways, massive defense budgets--and when no one is looking, vomit...
Describing the summer in a fairly quiet town like Gulfport, Miss Lake reported that there were "three or four arrests, one beating, and about 1000 obscene phone calls." She spoke of one white assailant, who called out to a nearby policeman "I got 'em Jack...
Weaver, speaking for the "old leadership" of the movement, expressed mild surprise that things had stayed as quiet as they had, "that there had been a few killings, perhaps, but no massacres. Most Mississippians must have felt," he said, "that if they just gritted their teeth and waited it out, like in 1865, pretty soon the outsiders would give up and go home...
...very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm center...