Word: responded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SNCC is an in-group. The kids that make it up work hard, take on awesome tasks, and "don't respond well to criticism." Their discussions may be termed "philosophic," their songs are warm and strong, but SNCC workers haven't much time for jokes. Julian is different; he takes things less seriously. When talking to the Harvard kids running the SOUTHERN COURIER, an Alabama weekly, he suggested they run a box on their front page with a picture of a bird, any bird, entitled "Wise Old Bird." Then underneath the bird any three-digit lottery number...
...weeks ago the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee issued a statement denouncing as aggression United States action in Vietnam. It expressed sympathy for those "unwilling to respond to a military draft which would compel them to contribute their lives . . . in the name of the 'freedom' we find so false in this country." When asked by newsmen if he supported the statement, Julian Bond, 26-year-old press secretary for SNCC, said he did. In response to further questioning Bond said that he admired the courage of those who burn their draft cards, but that he would not burn...
...given us In Cold Blood as well. The America that Capote has suggested in his immortalization of Hickock and Smith engulfs the America which Wolfe and others have so stridently proclaimed as, indeed, it engulfs us all; those, who like a bright-eyed Capote in Holcomb, respond to this fact with interest and humility, will find In Cold Blood one of those rare documents which irrevocably focuses our attention on the facts and fate flying overhead
...Even last year Percy showed impressive strength in the Negro wards. "It will be an uphill battle all the way," he admits. But, adds Chuck Percy, "If we can wage an effective and good campaign on the right issues, if we can identify the causes of the future and respond to them, then...
...motion. In his right hand, he clasped a notched pistol grip that controlled smaller thrusters used to pitch, yaw or roll the Gemini around one of its own axes-maneuvers that could fix its attitude in space. By working both controls simultaneously, Schirra was able to make his spacecraft respond as smoothly as a trained seal. Stafford, meanwhile, was busy with a circular slide rule and a heavily crosshatched plotting chart in his lap, checking the on-board computer's data and relaying information to Mission Control...