Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Muskie paused only briefly. Then inspiration struck. "I'll tell you what," he said. "I'll make you a bargain." He invited Rick Brody, 21, a sandaled, longhaired senior wearing a peace medallion, to speak for ten minutes...
Among those who have left for good, the young often speak in total disillusionment. "O.K., it's clear. We see how things are," says a 26-year-old Czechoslovak mathematician. "We won't ever go back. The Russians have strangled us." For older people, Dubcek's adventure provided a fresh breath of freedom that was too precious to give up. "You live 20 years in fear of your life, and then it gets better," observes a 50-year-old medical technician who fled to Paris. "You can never go back to what life was like before." Intellectuals...
...Sunday noon Mass at St. Mat thew's Cathedral in Washington. Instead of delivering a sermon, he entered the pulpit to read a pastoral letter that, it had been announced in advance, would exhort the faithful to obey the encyclical. As O'Boyle began to speak, about 400 worshipers, roughly one-third of the congregation, rose and walked out of the church. Despite this stunning rebuke, prearranged by two local organizations, the cardinal calmly delivered his message, which warned against "false prophets" who contend that birth control is a matter for individual conscience.* "Even...
...communist myself, I was brought up to know that it is unsafe, nearly suicidal, to speak against God, Mother, Apple Pie, and the Flag in America. I learned what it means to have one's career destroyed by one's beliefs. I learned that refusing to be an informer can be a felony. Not until 1963 did any member of my family forget the lessons Joseph McCarthy taught us so well...
Some of my best friends are the sons of liberal white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, though they haven't learned their lessons as well as we have. If Dean Watson is looking for radicals, he should look to them, for they still think it is safe to speak one's conscience in this country. Watson must only hope they will finally learn the true lesson of the American Experience under the Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace administration. Nicholas C. Arguimbau...