Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stayed long. Hubert Horatio Sr., the "town rebel," the Democratic chairman of Republican Spink County who joshed about his wife's being "politically unreliable" (she voted for Harding and Coolidge), the kind of father who sat Junior on his knee to hear Wilson's Fourteen Points and who read Bryan's cross-of-gold speech to the family "at least twice a year," did not bring up his son to espouse pliable convictions...
...warriors, aflap with American flags and buttons that read "Kill a Commie for Christ," lashed into a crowd of peace marchers, crying "Queers! Creeps! You Commie bastards!" One little old lady particularly incensed them with a sign reading TRADE DEAN RUSK FOR THE PUEBLO. Police quickly broke up the melee, and Mayor John Lindsay added: "This country is big enough to draw a distinction between a wrongful Government policy and respect for those men being killed...
...their differences of nationality, mood or cause, student activists around the world have many common traits and habits. They tend to read the same authors, particularly the U.S.'s C. Wright Mills, Norman Mailer and Paul Goodman. Their favorite is California Professor Herbert Marcuse, 69, who argues that individuals are dominated and manipulated by big institutions of government and business, and that man has the obligation to oppose them. And they tend to have the same heroes; among them are such disparate Americans as Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Robert Kennedy, who is now much more popular with...
Although the reaction to his article was over-whelmingly congratulatory (John Kenneth Gal-braith, in a letter to the Atlantic, said it was the finest political article he had read in many years), Thomson said he had received one letter from a former top-ranking Washington policy-maker, criticizing him for breaking the faith and trust of internal governmental activity...
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