Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustrating thing was that only 13 per cent wanted him re-elected, and most of those were freshmen. Little-noted at the time were the six votes--less than one per cent--which Senator Eugene J. McCarthy received...
...long road to travel in a year. But the thing called the Establishment has always had a death wish, and it helped out nicely. The big ugly war pervaded all American institutions, including the university. The "institutionalized hypocrisy" that Kenneth Keniston says American youth hates is right here, right in front...
There is something that makes us want the market to quiver and the polls to fluctuate. That is why we do things. All Simon James knows is that he wants to make it Good. That is a good thing to know. Don't ask him how he would remake the university. He is honest and he is doing and he wants it Good and he recognizes that things are rotten and that is enough...
...there was blood, too. The repression came, and for the first time in their lives, middle-class college students were clubbed and gassed by police and soldiers. It was Keniston's "confrontation with evil," the thing that radicalizes you. That night, a few thousand sat on the steps of the Pentagon with troops smashing them with rifle butts, but no one reported...
...suddenly 1968 was snatched away. Suddenly it became June, and there you were with the war that you told everyone you hated. And a government you never knew had decided your future for you. That was lousy and undemocratic, and back in your mind you remembered that the same thing had happened to people in Vietnam and in America and all over the world. And maybe it was an irrational reaction, but you hated your country for what it did and you didn't want to be a part...