Word: understood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy said, "I never understood that the Commonwealth had to prove its case perfectly, only beyond a reasonable shade of doubt...
...students who will join the Standing Committee will probably be seated early next month. Three of the students will be chosen from potential AAS concentrators, and three will be from the Association of African and Afro-American Students (Afro). Mason said last night that he understood that the list of potential concentrations will be ready in about a week
...clearly feared that it would not be listened to or understood by the soldiers' Field crowd (which was possible) but that was not sufficient reason for SDS to abdicate from he responsibility of directing its attention to the vaguely uncommitted masses of students. SDS was bale to ignore the people in the Stadium in this way because such aloofness seems to have become an inherent part of the functioning of the organization, as if its coherence and identity is dependent on its remaining a relatively small splinter pressure group...
...alumni even knew of the meeting, fewer cared, and only a handful might have understood what went on at the four-hour marathon...
...harder time fighting back (as North Korea vs. the U.S.). The possibilities of willful action (as opposed to violence) in contemporary America are fantastic. This is very didactic, I know, but it puts "why" in its proper place. Action is its own reason for existing. Rebellion can only be understood by a rebel, who knows that the only "reason" for rebellion is the pleasure (or whatever feeling) of rebellion itself. Revolution for the hell of it, because there is no other reason big enough for rebellion. Now, right here, in this country, no matter how big and ugly the cops...