Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "14 million people reverted to near savagery" and that "there seemed no logical explanation for the madness that swept the Congo." May I suggest that such reversion to savagery is not peculiar to the African but that throughout history such excesses have generally followed in the wake of heady new freedom won at last by people who have previously been treated like dogs. Freedom permits open expression of hatred that has been seething for years, and that hatred bursts like water from a broken dam. For the moment there is terror, but it does not last, just...
When Jazz Impresario George Wein heard these lines, hastily composed by Poet Langston Hughes last week, he "bawled like a baby." Most of the backers of the Newport Jazz Festival bawled with him. When the biggest jazz bash in the country was closed down in the wake of drunken rioting, with 12,000 college students finally tamed by the state police, National Guard and the U.S. Marines, the backers figured to lose $150,000 in advance ticket sales, not to mention the festival's glamorous name...
...immigration that followed the Irish potato famine. The families prospered, and both grandfathers, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald and Patrick J. Kennedy, went into Democratic politics-Pat as a backstage oligarch, Honey Fitz as a frock-coated ham who could weep at will at a stranger's wake, made Sweet Adeline his theme song, served three terms in Congress and was a memorable mayor of Boston...
...Senator Terry Sanford, 42, had led a field of four in the first primary last month by soft-pedaling his own segregationist sympathies, pushing instead an ambitious program of building schools and luring industry. His runoff opponent, Dr. I. (for Isaac) Beverly Lake, 53, ex-professor of law at Wake Forest College, fired up rebel-yelling segregationist rallies by damning North Carolina's token school integration, promised to "create a climate of public opinion in strong opposition to integration" and draw closer to the diehard Deep South...
...keep the boys awake during movies-and to make note taking easier-the school uses rear-view projectors that operate efficiently in well-lighted rooms. The movies are shown in extra-minute snatches, sandwiched between snappy discussion periods. "Normally," says Polich, "when a movie is over, you have to wake the student up to tell him what he has just learned...