Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem, the least of which is my own unhappiness, that is short of revolution. How can the problems of pollution possibly be solved without getting rid of chemical companies that continually lie about the effects of their product, and who, when forbidden to sell them in America, rush off with them to the Third World? And the chemical companies won't really like being gotten rid of, and they have many friends, many more than...
...they are the same thing as the city. Every night in Cambridge my dreams are full of passion and violence. And yet, I sleep very soundly in the country, full of happy images. The city questions cease to make sense. It all seems subjective and ridiculous. So I must rush back to the city every Sunday, perhaps to make things objective again. In part to reaffirm the conditions of oppression that I perceive, and then to reaffirm my ideology of response...
...SUDDEN RUSH of newsmen to center of park, I am nearly trampled by cameraman. Betty Freidan has arrived. "No woman that I've encountered is not feeling great elation on this day," she says. The beat of Liberation Now gets louder. "Ah, they're not burning any bras; let's get out of here," a man mutters. "Flags, flags, flags for sale-look real good on television," that old man calls. A woman tries to interest the photographers in plastic playground equipment she is demonstrating. They ignore...
...residents of Sotto il Monte hope that the late Pope John XXIII will one day be formally recognized as a saint. That, they feel sure, would increase the budding pilgrimage boom to the village where John was born. Already there is a sufficient rush of weekend visitors to support three new restaurants, and the anniversary of the Pope's death last June 3 attracted a crowd of 15,000-more than seven times the village's population...
...still go to church once in a while. We are neither boy scouts nor demonstrators, goody-goodies nor political prisoners. We are liberals and conservatives and reactionaries and radicals. Because we don't fit into the molds you have fashioned, we have somehow escaped notice in the mad rush to publicize youth today...