Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these commentators and producers live and work in the geographical and intellectual confines of Washington, D.C., or New York City. Both communities bask in their own provincialism, their own parochialism. These men read the same newspapers, draw their political and social views from the same sources. Worse, they talk constantly to one another...
...People are beginning," he said, "to mistake us for the stories we're covering." Those who were charging TV journalists with biased reporting were "doing so for political reasons, for the most part." Even mere reminders that TV stations were licensed amounted to censorship, he felt. "When they talk about public responsibility in the news, they're talking about censorship." And, he added, "they'll come to newspapers next. They won't stop." David Brinkley, "liberal, but not very," is just as pessimistic about the Federal Government, "a clumsy, heavy-footed bureaucratic monster out of contact...
...rally in San Francisco was also the biggest demonstration in that city's history. At the end of the sevenmile march from Pier 29 to Golden Gate Park, some 125,000 people had assembled. The day was entirely peaceful, though some of the talk coming from the platform was wild. The most extreme statements came from David Milliard, a Black Panther leader who spouted obscenities and declared: "We will kill Richard Nixon! We will kill any mother ?? that stands in the way of our freedom!" This was too much for his listeners, who shouted him down with cries...
...Blaine's talk focused on two large groups of young people- "the dropouts and the violent ones." The first group, he said, "are dropping out completely from established society and using harmful drugs regularly." The other group, meanwhile, "is using violent means in an attempt to destroy the structure of [universities]." Blaine subjected both groups to psychological scrutiny in his speech...
After being denied entrance into Mass Hall, about 100 demonstrators entered May's office in University Hall, where they tried to get him to call Wiggins over to talk with them. May said that he would not. "under these circumstances," and also refused their demand that he promote the helpers immediately...