Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Martin Luther King Jr. was only 13 years old, Farmer took part in a sit-in at a Chicago restaurant. A year earlier, he had founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which immediately began an assault on racial barriers in the South. In 1955, he took part in King's famed boycott against the Montgomery bus company, which forced the company to desegregate...
This freedom from guilt and from responsibility is so necessary to a journalist. Today, he is simply publicizing someone else's nightmare. When the day comes, he will write: "Gestapo officials estimated today that 346 detainees were exterminated by the state because of crimes . . . " He will sit down and write it, because he has no values. He is afraid to have them because he is afraid of a power that he does not have...
...tough, moralistic, even prudish regime. While revelers are putting the final touches on their colorful fantasias, the stunning costumes that give carnaval its color, the dour government of President Arthur da Costa e Silva continues its purges and its arrests. Scores of Brazilians are in jail, and some will sit out carnaval in virtual exile, on the lonely island of Ilha Grande, 70 miles off the coast...
Weird electronic music. A psychedelic title card. And then, the opening scene of ABC's new "second season" show, Turn-On. Two computer operators, one white and one black, sit with their backs to the camera facing a madly flashing IBM 360, or something. Says black to white, "I've never programmed a program before." He must be the only second-season TV man in Hollywood who hasn't. By last week, eight midseason replacement shows had made their debuts, and they all looked like print-outs from a stuck computer...
...through this fear. What had happened was not a brainwashing, not an emptying of his mind that threatened to turn him into a living dead man, an intellectual zombie. What he had experienced was a slowing down, a clearing away of the garbage that made it possible to sit for hours with a single thought to play with a thought, to draw it out, and enjoy it like a poem, to contem- plate its fullness, to exhaust it, and then move on to the next...