Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despaired of the whole political system, and doubted that they could ever accomplish real change by working inside it, were given a new sense of hope and power by the crusade for Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire. Following a romantic cause to a remote state, a few thousand students used old-fashioned ward politics to help bring out the vote. The result brought Robert Kennedy into the presidential race. And that-plus student protests against the Administration's Viet Nam policies-had something to do with Lyndon Johnson dropping...
...shin level by slowly flashing lights. Delicately disturbing was Lucas Samaras' Mirrored Room No. 2, part of the Albright's permanent collection. The room (see overleaf) was plated with mirrors on the walls, floor and ceiling. Looking up, festivalgoers could see themselves, standing on their heads a thousand times; looking down, they could see themselves again, plunging like a jack-in-the-box into the abyss...
When the Civil War spread to Nanking, Thomson and an American friend covered four or five thousand miles traveling around China "by every conveyance known...
...strange that the same issue of TIME that discusses the possible death of the organized church [April 12] should memorialize a black preacher who changed a nation from a thousand pulpits? The life and death of Martin Luther King would prove more than enough to accent the meaning and power of the church today...
...only when more than a few thousand activists realize that they are alone that this thing will work again. Since February and the days when Hershey told us we all had to go, only one thing has changed--we have been successful. Everyone wants to be on our side, really to put us on their side. We are being sucked up into the womb again, back to where we came from, safe and sound. But don't let them fool us: we are alone. And until we realize it, these will remain the worst of times, even though...