Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senseless and cruel as the week's riots were, their resolution offered hopeful pointers for the future. Given levelheaded law enforcement, maintenance of open communication with local Negro leadership, and-above all, perhaps -the deployment of concerned and responsible Negroes like the Tampa and Dayton "white hats," city officials may well be able to avert full-scale conflagrations that can only scar their cities and needlessly inflame race relations...
Members of Students for a Democratic Society marched last month in the Spring Mobilization, and cheered faithfully when Stokely Carmichael denounced the "cruel and senseless" war in Vietnam. But they demonstrated without the high expectations and hopes of past protests. SDS did not participate in organizing the march, refused initially to endorse it, and finally came to support it only ten days before it was scheduled to occur. Both the mood of the marchers and the attitude of their organization reflected a significant shift of strategy within...
There is also evidence of a generational conflict. Polish sources have admitted a strong feeling on the part of youth blaming the older generation for the war and the accompanying destruction, for the misery and unemployment, for the fear of a new war, for "senseless iron curtains and boundary barriers," and for unsettled racial conflicts. In the Soviet Union, the more sophisticated students are critical of the older generation for having been involved in, or permitted, the Stalinist excesses. More deeply, the young people are tired of hearing from the older generation about how hard they sacrificed in order...
...Senseless Action." The Berkeley student government fired off letters to 14 regents who had voted to dismiss Kerr, saying that their action had been "senseless and illogical." The firing was later denounced at a rally of 7,000 students at U.C.L.A., which was addressed by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, who later said he felt "a sense of deep sadness" over Kerr's dismissal. Similar protest rallies attracted 6,000 students at Berkeley, 5,000 at the Santa Barbara campus, 3,500 at Riverside. The university's nine chancellors met in Los Angeles, pledged to continue Kerr...
...omnipresent picture is death -by warlord's broadsword or Japanese bombardment, by starvation or, simply, "in gusts of senseless cruelty." The end result is shown in the present generation of young girls caroling: "Last night I dreamed of Chairman Mao." Teddy White also sees visions of the Commu nist revolutionary he remembers from the 1930s and 1940s. A film of Mao to day comes into view while the voice-over narrates: "His aging mind still lusts for permanent strife; the theme he preaches to old and young alike is hate...