Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must admit that I was sorely disappointed by your portrayal of the graduating Class of 1968. I ask you, what percentage of the graduates look like that long-haired, bearded, psychedelic "freak-out" on your cover? Our society is sick with the pseudo intellectuals, acid heads and hippies...
...America is not sick. It is not just this country that is violent, or society in the 1960s. Pointing fingers at the U.S. is, seemingly, a favorite pastime in today's world, and the people from other countries who do it forget or ignore their own past. One need not enumerate the bloody history of England or France, the revolution of 1917 in Russia, the conquistadores of Spain, the banana republics of Latin America, the wars of independence in Africa, the dynastic wars in China, the long conflicts in Europe, to establish such an obvious truth...
...nation that greets us is tortured and sick...
Ordered Normality. That the U.S. is tortured cannot be denied. That it is gravely sick is too simplistic a view. After the first spastic reaction to the Kennedy murder (see PRESS), most commentators rejected a blanket diagnosis of disease while at the same time refusing to completely absolve U.S. society and civilization for what had happened. John Kenneth Galbraith, no Pollyanna when it comes to national flaws, observed last week that "the greater danger in our day than violence is unfocused selfcriticism. Nothing so serves as an excuse from reality...
Vincent T. Di Pierro, college student and part-time waiter at the Ambassador Hotel, recalled seeing Sirhan at the moment of the murder. "The minute the first two shots were fired," testified Di Pierro, "he still had a very sick-looking smile on his face. That's one thing-I can never forget that...