Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great and revolutionary things are coming about in America today prompted by youth's impatience, but nonetheless implemented by mature men who have something going for them-life experience. But the tender balance can be destroyed by even a noisy minority, whose credo is destruction for kicks rather than maturity gained through the creation of a family and doing one's "thing" for the betterment of society as a whole...
...without first putting it to the test. Wouldn't it be horrible if, by some fluke of course, the entire program worked? Think, for a moment, of the consequences of a microcosm that would be allowed to determine the proper path for itself. That would be a terrible thing in a democracy. Betsy Ross would probably have dropped a stitch at the mere thought, and that long-haired rebel George Washington just might have fallen out of his boat...
...Shaw once wrote, "is the extreme form of censorship." In most U.S. cases, the assassins have indeed dedicated themselves to blotting out viewpoints that disagree with their own. When Sirhan Sirhan was seized after the shooting of Robert Kennedy, he cried: "I can explain! Let me explain!" The appalling thing is that he really thought that he could...
Peace, even a phony peace that will mean war for two more years and no real change in the policies that lead to war, peace is a beautiful thing. And this country embraces it as a beautiful thing. Students, like everyone else in America see war and peace as separate times and separate places. There is nothing in between. For a long time, it looked like this country was at peace...
Both Joint Center administrators and alienated outsiders agree on one thing: The Joint Center is not an effective institution for cooperating with the ghetto...