Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compromise. David proselytizes at campaign rallies where he and Julie appear, but he has learned to speak briefly. "Julie gives me advice," he says, and in fact she can sometimes be blunt. "If she doesn't like the emphasis of the speech," David smiles, "she'll say so. Usually, I'm stunned for a little while, then I'll come around and we work out a compromise...
...Cleaver would have monopolized the course. He was to have been one of 12 speakers, including a psychiatrist, a Mexican-American writer, and Oakland Chief of Police Charles Gain, whom the Panthers scarcely view with academic detachment. For all that, Cleaver's appointment to speak produced an incendiary reaction. Among the first to explode was State Schools Superintendent Max Rafferty, a master of gothic prose and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Said he: "Cleaver is certainly as well qualified to lecture on urban unrest as Attila the Hun would be qualified to lecture on international mass murder...
...dissenters are, like Solzhenitsyn, writers. But artists, critics, musicians, lawyers, mathematicians have also joined ranks with the writers to protest any return to the moral squalor of Stalinism. Particularly important has been the willingness of noted scientists, such as Andrei Sakharov, who helped build the Soviet H-bomb, to speak out (TIME...
...students for whom this was the center of revolutionary operations. Hands and clothes were dirtied from the ink of freshly printed leaflets. These were to be distributed to students, working people, parents--anyone who could read and respond. "The government is deaf to our voice so we must speak louder and clearer," one student said...
...mood of youth shows itself, as we all know, in a variety of forms. Today I want to speak about one controversial segment of our generation, the segment that I know best and consider myself a part of: that group of young men and women whose dissatisfaction has taken the form of a movement for fundamental change in America's social, political, and economic institutions. This group, of course, is still only a minority of the generation--but it is a growing minority, and one that includes many of the most vital, intelligent, and courageous young people...