Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what did the victory mean, and what will it bring? Will it inspire advocates of the New Politics-young, rebellious and impatient for change-to greater battles and more broken heads? Will it solidify the silent masses of settled, older Americans into rigid and angry resistance? Mayor Daley's mail count, despite press objections to his tactics, is running 20 to 1 in his favor...
...different starting points. Said the Vice President last week: "I do not believe the American people are bitter or filled with hate. I do not believe that they're racists. I intend to appeal to their basic goodness." Nixon had a more calculated approach: "The quiet Americans, the silent Americans, who have not been the protesters, who have not been the shouters-their voice is welling up across the country today. The great majority of Americans are angry. They don't like what's been happening in America these last four years...
...Mitchell and California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, were back in the fold and others were expected to return in time. One who will not: Louisiana's Governor John McKeithen, who announced that he will not back Humphrey, thus in effect ceding his state to Wallace. McCarthy himself remained silent. Said a Democrat who had earlier opposed the Vice President, but is now aiding him: "Everything in life boils down to one question-which is the lesser of evils...
...memorial, where only days before angry crowds had confronted Soviet tanks, hippies strummed their guitars. Prague police hustled young Czechoslovaks away from the statue of Wenceslas, the country's patron saint, where for days they had kept a silent vigil in honor of the 70 or so patriots who died under Soviet guns and tank treads in the first days of the invasion. On the spot where the bloodied clothes of a slain 14-year-old had lain surrounded by candles, city workmen emplanted rows of blooming red salvias. Then a water truck sprayed the flowers, finishing...
...hopelessness. In Prague, students who only days before had taunted the Soviet soldiers and set fire to their tanks now dispersed at the first sign of a Red Army uniform. Shopkeepers used razor blades to scrape political slogans off their store windows. The free radio stations either went silent or dropped the word free from their names. The underground newspapers stopped publishing anything controversial (see following story). At the same time, the apparatus of repression fell swiftly into place, and the arrests of members of the underground, of liberal writers and artists, began...