Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything the reverse is true. He catalyzed thinking in those who had found it convenient not to think. He crystallized subtly felt prejudice into formulations of the causes of Negro poverty and disfranchisement and the character of the white political and economic system. But Carmichael and other SNCC people seldom ventured beyond the simple formulations. What they said was exciting, but did not inspire action...
Americans are reminded almost daily of the Negro's checkered progress toward equality. Seldom, by contrast, are they apprised of the social and economic lag that afflicts the nation's second largest disadvantaged minority: the 4,677,000 Mexican-Americans of the U.S. Southwest-proud, poor and increasingly protest-minded. From the Rio Grande to the Russian River, in the bleak barrios of East Los Angeles and the tar-paper colonias of the San Joaquin Valley, the Mexican minority is struggling to articulate its anger...
These days the Government seldom loses an antitrust case in the Supreme Court. And last week the trustbusters won big. In a unanimous decision, the court agreed with the Federal Trade Commission's contention that the ten year-old Procter & Gamble-Clorox Chemical merger violated the Clayton Antitrust Act and should be dissolved...
...have ever wondered why men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses, McLuhan again comes to the rescue. He knows why girls wear patterned or mesh stockings, why Germans make better nuclear physicists than Americans, why an American is repulsed when a foreigner carries on a conversation only three inches from the American's face, why there is such widespread distaste for the war in Vietnam, why some Arabs wear alarm clocks in their turbans to gain status...
...outlines of the monster cannot be missed. In the new Hollywood, Cohn's kind of vulgarity can still be found-but not his kind of power. The absence of that power has made moviemakers' lives a lot better. The irony is that the same can seldom be said for their pictures...