Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Hanify '71, who read the prepared HUC recommendation, said after the meeting that it was the first time "we got down to the substantive issue of parietals. The talk is no longer about legal restrictions but about relevant questions such as, would the students accept the responsibility involved...
...Parkinson's Law might be: Words directed at the electorate multiply in direct proportion to the time and space available on TV and radio and in magazines and newspapers. By any reckoning, the 1968 campaign sets an alltime record for verbiage. Small wonder that with so much talk flooding the ether, the words sometimes get mixed up and Candidate A sounds like his opponent Candidate B, and Candidate C sounds like both. As proof of the theorem, here is a simple test: Match the candidates and their words...
...hungering for gut reaction instead of grace is a hallmark of the times. It is perhaps significant that the young who have made it so constitute the most intensively educated generation in U.S. history; the endocrine charge that goes with intemperate talk and action may be nature's way of counterbalancing an overemphasis on cool rationality, much as a calcium-deficient child is moved to nibble plaster off the wall. Miss Terry's style of gut theater fits in with this new act-it-out, confrontation mode. But the excitement of real life does not transfer...
...NEVER abandoned her faith in the communist system. Often, in her speeches and in private, she talks of the need for a "counter-vision with counter-values" to replace the American dream. "When I talk about the need for the people to own the means of production," she explains, "I don't mean that each worker in a factory would own the machine he works at. It's different. It's that the profits of a company, instead of going into the pockets of the owner, come back to benefit the people who work for the company...
While Humphrey aides talk optimistically about an upset, a state-by-state breakdown presents them with a much bleaker picture than do the national polls, conceded by both Harris and George Gallup to be inconclusive...