Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sshhh!" just didn't work. The bugs quieted down for a second or two, slithered away, but kept coming back. They're social creatures that can't distinguish between the library and the dining hall. It would take a good deal more to annihilate them. This meant...
...care to a certain extent about various individuals around you, you have to distance yourself from the chatterboxes who would have you know every curious thing, and memorize every curious conclusion, about every other human in your hallway. These same petty details, unfortunately, are what often pass for social contact...
What echoes today is a memory, almost mythic in proportions. Like all leaders who die young, Bobby is frozen in death as larger than life. As a memory, he evokes an era of political passion and social commitment that stands in haunting contrast to 1988. As a myth, he is a vessel into which all dreams can be poured. A recent Rolling Stone survey found that to this day only Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. stand out as heroes to the 18- to 44-year-olds who were interviewed...
...compassion he preached was not part of a cold political calculus designed to forge a winning electoral coalition. Though much of what Bobby did was carefully planned, his pleas for racial harmony and social justice -- delivered to conservative whites in Terre Haute, Ind., as well as to blacks in Gary -- seemed to reflect deep and true personal feelings. He was a latecomer to civil rights when he saw it as a threat to his brother's political standing, but he was passionate in the cause of social justice after being exposed to the sight of young blacks falling outside...
...Kennedy mystique seems particularly appealing in 1988. The yearning that some feel to cast a protest vote or express a passion for social change has been partly reflected in the success of Jesse Jackson's candidacy. But the triumph of George Bush and Michael Dukakis has submerged political passion in favor of pragmatism and efficiency. Each has his programs and respectable records. Dukakis even tries to evoke the Kennedy legacy. But they pale in comparison to the faded photographs of Bobby reaching out to endless seas of eager hands and exciting admiring crowds. Bush has apologized to his supporters...