Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youthful voices-strident and self-confident, proud and often contemptuous-naturally grates on the ears of their elders.'' Not this elder. These courageous young men and women are in existential revolt against the WASP suburbanite society, whether its members style themselves "liberal," "conservative," or "moderate" (a blue-ribbon porker is still a pig). Gustave Flaubert put it this way: "Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of all virtue " Can you dig it? The kids can. I affirm their stand...
Dunlop agrees that the attempt here was for a "blue-ribbon" panel, whose recommendations--which obviously would lead to major changes if accepted--would carry strong weight with the Faculty...
...battle prayer, "what brave men must I lose this day?" Adding his own invocation to that of the negotiators in Pans to still the guns, the President last week paid homage to four heroes of Viet Nam in a unique Pentagon ceremony, hanging the star-spangled blue silk ribbon and bronze star of the Medal of Honor around the necks of a soldier, a sailor, a Marine and an Air Force pilot. >Army Specialist Five Charles C. Hagemeister, 21, has the kind of bravery that often prompts Viet Cong snipers to single out the aid man as he moves...
...They're mostly ribbon chasers," says Kaye Edmondson of the 150 youngsters (only ten of them boys) whom she trains at Valley Farm Stables in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where she watches them go through their junior horse shows every other week. "The whole horse business has changed," says her husband Lee, a former broncobuster. "Twenty or 30 years ago, showing was for the rich. Now English riding, hunting and showing have become tremendously popular with everyone...
...cripple anyone looting." As for young looters, Daley favored the use of Chemical Mace as "safer." Rapping his top cop, James B. Conlisk Jr., for failing to apply "deadly force" to stop the burning and looting that erupted in the Windy City, Daley appointed a nine-man "blue ribbon" investigating committee to determine, among other things, if a conspiracy was the cause of the chaos. "If anyone doesn't think this is a conspiracy," he said darkly, "I can't understand...