Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Party had failed in at least one notable instance. Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy demanded that, in exchange for his backing, Humphrey promise to support a change of government in Saigon, reform the draft and overhaul Democratic Party machinery. Replied Humphrey: "I am not prone to start meeting conditions." While Lyndon Johnson made his first formal speech on the Vice President's behalf during the week, he was all but overshadowed once again by his party's dissenters. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh charged that his fellow Democrats in Washington had accomplished little during...
Does this seem as though I am saying of our government, "presumed guilty until proven innocent"? If so, fine. The past twenty years leave some room for doubts (in Europe, for example), but the case is overwhelmingly against us. A new start can only be made with the acknowledgement of our own implication in the Cold War and with a powerful commitment to sweep the academic environment clean of reactionary atomic idiocy and nonsensical desires to "make the world safe for (American capitalist) 'democracy'..." Sincerely, (signed) Jon Livingston
...pose answers to the problems he deals with. The students I taught were hopelessly behind their white counterparts. Most could read, however tedious that process might be for them. Sympathy and hard work for one summer will never be enough; one hesitates to say whether a fully equipped head start program prior to entry into a fully integrated grade school system will be enough. The Negro in the south has always been in a difficult learning situation; today the situation is more acute than ever, as high school age Negroes are cast into competition with high school whites...
...only place to start is with yourself. The principles of the good society aimed at creating what Fidel Castro calls the "communist consciousness" have already been glimpsed by many people. This has been the great spiritual contribution of the hippies to the American political thrust of today. Unselfishness, generosity, no hangups about one's personal possessions--this is the faith on which the improvement of future human societies depends. Along with these go the quintessentially hippie virtues of individual self-creativity and confident self-expression, a reverence for beauty, a gentleness and openness in one's dealings with others...
Howie Foye, Max Schweizer, and Pete Dennehy continue to make steady progress in practice. They are expected to fill in today for senior "Spider" McLoone and junior "Elf" Roth, who are both hobbled by injuries and will not start today...