Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Youth is fulminating all over the landscape, in walkouts, sit-ins, and other forms of exhibitionism. Seventy-five years ago, I inspired a walkout and was temporarily suspended. There has been no psychological change in youth in these 75 years. I know-I have lived with them. The colt in the pasture sometimes kicks a hole in the fence. He will probably mature into a very fine horse. If he is to be trained it sometimes requires a tight rein and sometimes a flip of the whip on the buttocks. Most of these youngsters of ours will mature into substantial...
Irrational Nodules. With walk-out and sit-in, march and riot, the no longer meek can be counted on to continue to demand their social and economic inheritance now. Negro parents of limited education demand a say in the running of ghetto schools. Articulate undergraduates-and not a few faculty members-insist on a meaningful vote in the governance of their own institutions. The poor who march on Washington have a more basic desire: the means for a decent existence. Traditionally passive public servants no longer have qualms about shutting down school or sanitation or transportation systems. Agricultural laborers agitate...
...positions of power. The former education director of the N.A.A.C.P., Paul Parks-who also happens to be an able civil engineer -was put in charge of the Model Cities program; a welfare mother was named to the public-welfare board, whose highhandedness she had protested in a raucous sit-in. As a result of White's concern for Negro neighborhoods, his critics now call him "Mayor Black...
...suppose a yearbook feels perpetually obligated to show the same dreary archways, people asleep in libraries, and sunsets-or-are-they-sunrises. But sit-ins, student power rallies, draft-card burnings, black activism, and New Hampshire were just a tad out of the ordinary this year, and one might almost expect a competent job of photojournalism. Forget...
...have been mediating ever since, 30 minutes each morning, and 30 minutes each night. It's been easy to do--I sit in a darkened room, close my eyes, and let thoughts make their way through my mind. And when it comes, I think my mantra...