Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope Nixon's suggestion that we stop shouting and start speaking softly catches on. How wonderful it would seem to be underwhelmed for a change...
...prayer breakfast in the Sheraton-Park Hotel. The President reported that each evening he reads selected letters addressed to him from all over the country. Sounding a little like Graham himself, he said: "Even in this period when religion is not supposed to be fashionable, when agnosticism and skepticism seem to be on the upturn [the mail includes] prayers for this country, for the leadership this nation may be able to provide for the world...
...Complex industrialized societies function today because their members have had the values of greed, rigid discipline and voracious competitiveness inculcated into them. The point is that these values, contemptible though they may seem, do enable the system to operate without breaking down, which means that garbage does get collected, food-markets do market food, consumer goods do get distributed, and the countless interlocking services necessary for modern human existence do get performed in a reasonably coherent manner. The challenge facing radicals is to show that they can replace these ugly and barren values with their own value system which stresses...
...offerings and the development of a new program in Afro-American studies (see Section II), are viewed by the black students as the essential means of ameliorating the situation. However, the full development of such resources will take time, and meanwhile there are specific problems for which immediate solutions seem available...
...majority of Army and Air Force ROTC students, membership in the units is the source of their draft deferments (being graduate students, they are not automatically deferred as are College students); it would seem harsh for the College to urge, if effect, that these draft deferments be abolished...