Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around the bar call Dabard "our own little De Gaulle" and yarn about his imperious tactics. The new water works? Ah, well, Dabard knew that the town council disapproved, so he appointed an independent commission to "study" the plan. To no one's surprise, the commission thought the project was splendid, and Dabard signed a construction contract. The council protested, but the mayor was ready. "If you question my judgment," he told the councilmen, "it means I no longer have your confidence. Therefore, I will have to resign." The council backed down, as expected...
That is why Ethel vehemently supported Ted Kennedy's resolve to forge ahead in politics after Bobby's death. "There never was a thought of his leaving the Senate," says Ethel. "There was never a thought of his retiring from public life. I wouldn't have it any other way." For Ethel, too, remaining at Hickory Hill means resolving, after all the pain and horror that have gone before, to encourage her own sons to go into politics if they are so inclined. "For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage," she says...
...people today speak at each other and call it "dialogue." Here one sees Howard and Harding really listening to each other and thinking and reacting. The result more than once brings the reader to the edge of his seat, and forces him to become involved in the flow of thought...
...choosing not to make a clear defense of its demands and by not fighting to get the demands accepted by the meeting SDS implied that essentially it bore a strong mistrust of the large mass of the student body. This breaks the first article of faith of Maoist thought since contradictions within the student body are non-antagonistic. As it turned out the CRSR demands were overwhelmingly accepted at the first meeting. SDS is to be strongly blamed for having allowed a powerless and unorganized group such as that one to usurp the leadership of the student movement for however...
...acid literature and acid thought are really only those ideas that deal with high level revelation, mysticism, telepathy, and transcendence of the ego. The LSD experience should not be confused with, for example, the stream-of-consciousness way of representing the way we experience the regular world. It would be confusing to call, let's say, James Joyce an acid tripper...