Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnsons' guest the weekend before L.B.J. left office. He reappeared at Nixon's inauguration to deliver a prayer that sounded more like a sermon-and was not overly kind to his earlier host at the White House. After all, Graham had urged Nixon to make the race in 1968, and had been on hand at the discussions in Miami in August that led to the choice of Spiro Agnew as Nixon's running mate...
...admiringly referred to as a "flyer." That temperament served English well when he and a team of top Express reporters set out to produce a book on the 1968 U.S. presidential election. Divided They Stand (Prentice-Hall, $6.95) is not only the first full-length study of that memorable race. It is also brisk, readable and sharply focused, with a detached perspective that injects freshness into familiar events...
...human race survives," says Laing, in gloomy accents, "future men will, I suspect, look back on our enlightened epoch as a veritable Age of Darkness." Fortunately, his importance to psychiatry does not rest on the accuracy of his abysmally pessimistic social prophecies. But the physician-metaphysician has assured himself of a place in intellectual history with his chilling thesis: that insanity may be no more than a reflection of insane society...
...students change "divisions" to meet the other part of the student body, to get away from Yellowsprings in the winter, or for personal reasons--like the white boy and black girl who found it uncomfortable to go on seeing each other on a campus which has recently become extremely race-conscious. Almost all of Antioch's eighty-to-ninety black students live in segregated dorms which whites do not enter. The African Studies department, which will soon have its own building, offers some courses for both blacks and whites, others for black students only...
...almost military bearing contrasts with a career as a conscientious objector that goes back to World War II. "I could not fight against the master race theory of Hitler while we had it here at home." He got a deferment for theological studies, though he made clear his intentions to stay out of the ministry ("My draft board just didn't want to cause anyone any trouble...