Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notable exception is the Beatles, whose recent Revolution demurred: "When you talk about destruction/ Don't you know that you can count...
...Table Talk. U.S. intelligence agencies, as usual, were at loggerheads with one another over the significance of the latest ever so slight shifts by both sides. The conferees in Paris remained at loggerheads too over the shape of the negotiating table around which they are to sit. That point has deadlocked the peace parley for almost two months, and last week the Communists announced that there would be no negotiations unless all parties sat down at a round table. Saigon has balked at such an arrangement, because it would accord equal status to the guerrillas. Thus the squabble over...
...second group is right, no amount of tough talk is likely to budge Hanoi. While the pessimists concede that the enemy has been hurt, they insist that he still has plenty of fight left, with the will and capability for a prolonged struggle. The most drastic division of opinion concerns the part-time guerrillas known as hamlet guards. Pessimists set their strength at 250,000; optimists contend that they are not effective troops and should not be counted...
...they demanded in those years." He switched to magazine writing and quickly made a name for himself as a practitioner of the so-called "new journalism" - highly interpretive reporting enlivened with plenty of descriptive personal detail. His gossipy profile of Times Managing Editor Clifton Daniel in Esquire became the talk of the publishing world. And thus began his backbreaking task of researching and writing the new-journalism version of the history of the Times...
Today, however, the songs of revolution are more explicit, the four-letter words are more frequent. And it all begins to smack of what publicity men call "the hype." Says Ed Denson, Country Joe's manager: "When these people talk about revolution, they mean protest, but they found that the word revolution shocks. The MC5 are taking a protest one step further to get attention." The MC5 clearly practice much of what they preach, as is shown by their string of arrests on charges of noisemaking, obscenity and possession of marijuana. Just as clearly, even their most aggressive songs...