Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is to congratulate you on the excellent Essay "What If You Don't Vote?" [Nov. 1]. Millions of Czechs, Hungarians and Poles are ready to die behind the Iron Curtain for that very right of a free and unfettered vote, while American pseudo-intellectual masochists agitate for the boycott of the 1968 presidential elections. Shame on them...
Meanwhile, both parties will be seeking new foundations on which to enlarge their strength. They will have a common target among the young. Both parties must seek to reclaim the Deep South and to win back the disenchanted on the right and left elsewhere as well. In the process, the Republicans and Democrats might find some of the social remedies that both major candidates promised when they repeatedly pledged themselves to lead the nation and re-store national unity...
After that, I drove over the railroad tracks to see what was left of the ball park. It was still there, all right, in the shadow of The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, but now it lay like an abandoned farm. The light poles had been moved around for football lighting, and the sandy gray soil had been harrowed and was awaiting fresh sod for the high school football season. Letters saying "Graceville Oilers Booster Club" had almost faded away on the concrete-block centerfield fence. The portable bleachers in left field had begun to rot beyond salvation. Gone were...
...swaddled in controversy since its beginning. The attack, for the most part, comes from black students complaining of white lecturers, white textbooks and white outlook. Defenders of the course are willing to concede the possibility of a misstep but maintain that it is at least a misstep in the right direction...
...That same day Richard E. Neustadt, chairman of the General Education Subcommittee in the Social Sciences, cautioned that experts in this new academic area were not readily available: "We felt the important thing was to get serious faculty working in a serious way rather than wait for the right expert to come along...