Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon. We will kill any mother - that stands in the way of our freedom." Said Raymond Masai Hewitt, minister of education: "We speak in the rhetoric of the ghetto and we're not going to change it to suit anybody's Marquess of Queensberry rules." The police seem to feel just as violently about the Panthers...
...spared in last week's drawing felt that the new system was fairer than the old, many found fault. "It's involuntary servitude," said Grossman. Those opposed to war are also worried about the lottery's effect on the protest movement. "People with high priority numbers seem resigned to go in," said Thulin, "and people who are free seem self-satisfied. Who's going to be left to criticize the draft...
Judging from a recent poll of the attitudes of youths aged 18 to 24, Confucius has just about had it in Japan, where his precepts have prevailed for centuries. Confucius may say respect your elders, obey the magistrate and do unto others, etc., but young Japanese seem too preoccupied with taking over university buildings and fashioning Molotov cocktails to pay him much heed. The poll, directed by Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's office and involving 3,400 youths, reported that...
...Only 39% believed that laws should be obeyed without question. Another 34% criticized the injustice of some laws but cautiously agreed that it pays not to violate them anyway. The other answers were split between those who recommended ignoring the law because it does not seem to relate to their daily lives and those who felt it serves only the interests of their elders and the ruling class...
Plainly, many of Japan's young people are headed for a break with some of the nation's most cherished traditions. Even the rebels, however, seem to suffer from a problem that handicapped their fathers: the inability to express opposition individually and in specific terms. A professor at Kyoto University recalled last week that when he invited individual students to challenge his statements or actions in the classroom, they would stand in tense and painful silence. When the students came to him in a group to scream their demands for reform, however, they were magically transformed. "Then," says...