Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure of an answer, he is generally honest enough to admit it. His article on Watts brings to mind a Rogers Albritton lecture: a somewhat confused talking out of a problem, changing direction several times in a few pages. Though Cooke finally tags television as a cause of the riots, he seems unsure of himself, and ends by halfheartedly suggesting a plethora of liberal answers to riot-prevention: birth control, blacks, blacks on the police force, public works projects, and the like...
...experience don't have a record to be proud of. Talk About America doesn't try to give the answers to our various dilemmas, but it's a worthwhile book nonetheless--the sort of thing to pick up on a gloomy night when you're tired of reading riot commission reports, memoirs of draft resisters, and radical solutions for the ghettoes...
...target. Nevertheless, the report is a warning that another confrontation might not be so fortunate. It notes: "To read dispassionately the hundreds of statements describing at firsthand the events of Sunday and Monday nights is to become convinced of the presence of what can only be called a police riot...
...most practical step Nasser took was to bring around the two leaders of the winter riot by, in effect, buying them off: Hassan Eid, the student organizer, became chairman of the na tional Students Union, and Helmy Murad, the leading faculty dissident, was appointed the government's new Minister of Education...
...feel satisfied with the 80% to 85% that we estimate will voluntarily support us." With that majority demanding proof of age at the box office, youth will now be restricted to four choices: G: go to a Walter Reade Theater; M: mark time until you grow up; R: riot in front of the box office; or X: wait until the movie makes the Late Show...