Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew him as a student at Loyola University of the South. So do most natives of New Orleans whose speech is not affected by the patois of rural southwestern Louisiana. When I first taught high school boys in New Orleans in 1935, I too was struck by what I thought was a Canarsie accent. The boys with the "tough accent" were mainly natives of the New Orleans "Irish Channel." As one of them recited to me after class: "They say in spring the boid is on the wing. My woid! How absoid! The wing is on the boid...
Across the nation, M-day observances are aimed at suspending business-as-usual in order to allow protest, debate and thought about the war. The Moratorium demonstrates a diversity and spread unknown in the earlier landmark protests against the war: the march on the Pentagon in October 1967, which inspired Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, and the bloody riots the following summer in Mayor Daley's Chicago. Each of those involved directly only a minority of the young and the radical intelligentsia, not anything resembling a cross-section of U.S. society...
Small-town housewives and Wall Street lawyers, college presidents and politicians, veteran demonstrators and people who have never made the "V" sign of the peace movement?thousands of Americans who have never thought to grow a beard, don a hippie headband or burn a draft card?planned to turn out on M-day to register their dismay and frustration over Viet Nam. Yes terday's Vietniks are determined to grow into tomorrow's majority...
...university's outstanding teachers. Grob has helped muster the majority of the Rice faculty behind the demonstration. He thinks that the observance will convince the public that opposition to the war "is not a radical movement or a splinter movement but goes across all spectrums of political thought on campus...
Maybe Yovicsin felt that he. as coach, was in a position to determine whether or not his quarterback should continue to play even when he did not enjoy the sport anymore. Champi thought for a long time about quitting. and he said that everyone he discussed it with agreed that it was a sound decision since football was no longer fun. So the question remains. if Yovicsin does not feel that Champi is old enough to make a decision about a facet of his own life. whom does he recommend as the person to make the decision for Champi...