Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most terrifying thing I saw first-hand was a mass rally in a medium-size city in the north of Greece. I later learned from some Greek acquaintances that this was typical of the tactics being practiced all over the country...
...saved the following fact for the end because it is the one thing so far that I didn't see myself. During the summer, however, I became very close to a young Greek enlisted man, and he swore that United States military aid was indispensible for the regime...
...Administration had failed at home as well as abroad. The credibility gap shows that Johnson has not persuaded the public he was doing the right thing. To some extent, this is a tribute to the press, but it is also a comment on the men and institutions which are running the war. For better or worse, they have been bad propagandists. The extent to which any administration can deceive the public without control of the media is fortunately limited, but the Johnson Administration has repeatedly misused its still formidable weapons of persuasion. The blunders have been sometimes comic, sometimes pitiable...
...playing with styles by no means stopped when they began performing only their own compositions. On "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" they play at being...well, Seargent Pepper's Band for one thing. The play at being sixty-four. And they play with different states of consciousness: they play at being lonely, at being stoned(and while stoned), and at going insane...
...last thing in the world that I wanted to do was to hurt anyone's feelings or reputation," he said...