Word: waked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Selma to Montgomery, as well as last week's march to Atlanta. TIME Correspondent Peter Range kept pace with him for a time last week as Williams bitterly talked about the events at Augusta, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., and the mood of the civil rights movement in their wake...
Nonetheless, there is also what Harvard Historian James Thomson Jr. calls "the effectiveness trap." Many officials decide to stay in office to combat presidential policies−only to wake up one day and discover that they have had no tangible effect whatsoever. In the Johnson Administration, for example, Under Secretary of State George Ball came to be accepted as the house dove, the devil's advocate who could be counted upon to present all the opposing arguments to the prevailing course on the war. While Ball presented his case forcefully, his counsel was more often than not discounted even...
...wake, the city of 70,000 lay divided by fear and hatred. Rumors circulated through the ghetto that five of the dead had been shot repeatedly and at close range by police using private weapons to avoid identification. Police Chief Broadus Bequest's refusal to meet next day with either black leaders or members of the press to refute the charges against the police only added to the speculation and rumor. At week's end a dusk-to-dawn curfew was still in effect, and 1,000 National Guardsmen, their nameplates covered with tape, patrolled the ghetto area...
Hindu-Moslem enmity has been a factor in Indian life since the beginning of the tenth century. Two decades ago, it reached a peak when more than 100,000 people died in the wake of partition. Religious fanatics still stir up trouble, and police intelligence is usually not good enough to head it off. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi blamed the Hindu nationalist party, Jana Sangh, and its paramilitary arm, the Rashtrya Sewak Sangh (R.S.S.), for the latest bloodbath. "Is it a coincidence," she asked, "that when people who belong to the R.S.S. or the Jana Sangh go somewhere, soon afterward...
...feelings. The Movement lost its innocence in Chicago, and much of its joy has turned to a cynicism necessary for its survival, McNeill died in August 1968, shortly before the Democratic Convention. He did not live to see the chaos and disillusionment that were to come in its wake. But the book preserves his dreams, and the dreams of those he writes about as they were when they were still intact. And even though their reality has faded, it is good to have this reminder of their promise...