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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shades of gay! Apparently only Mother Nature knows for sure the causes of homosexuality [Oct. 311 or what to do about it and, by golly, she's not talking. To her there is no such thing as perfection; otherwise, she'd stop her constant press of evolving. Always experimenting, that bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...lower our voices would be a simple thing," Richard Nixon proclaimed last January after taking the oath of office as President. Before the October antiwar Moratorium, he insisted that "under no circumstances" would he be affected by it. Yet now he has, in effect, abandoned his above-the-battle position. Nixon took the field against his critics in his Nov. 3 plea to "the silent majority" for backing of his Viet Nam policy, and last week he ordered Vice President Spiro.Agnew into the fray to mount an extraordinary-and sometimes alarming-assault on network television's handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE POLITICS OF POLARIZATION | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

March Marshals. The last thing the New Mobe leaders had wanted was violence. Unlike the 1967 march on the Pentagon and the demonstrations at the 1968 Chicago convention?both led by some of those now active in the New Mobe?civil disobedience was explicitly excluded from the advance plans. Further, leaders such as Pacifist David Dellinger, 54, Sociology Professor Sidney Peck, 42, and Economics Professor Douglas Dowd, 50, had sought out younger radical chiefs for assurances that there would be no provocation of the police or the military personnel assembled in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: PARADES FOR PEACE AND PATRIOTISM | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...militants are talking about complete segregation, even to the exclusion of sex. For one thing, as an unhappy young demonstrator explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The New Feminists: Revolt Against Sexism | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...just to let Washington know. And we sang, because we wanted to. Some of my Harvard friends started the refrain of "Alice's Restaurant," and a few other people joined in. Every now and then an enchanting little tune wound its way down the line: "Oh, what a lovely thing/ if the children of mankind/ would live together/ in a world of peace...

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: On the Far Side of the Monument | 11/20/1969 | See Source »

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