Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TURNING to activists, Blaine attributed a large measure of their frustration to "the relatively permissive upbringing to which [they] have been subjected . . . Inconsistency and softness . . . results in the . . . belief that authority can be bent or gotten around. It is infuriating to meet a stone wall when one had expected . . . a soft hedge...
...response, Butler explained the University's view of the difference between the kind of work done by helpers and that done by painters. "I'm not saying that in every five-minute period helpers and painters are doing different things. They might both be painting the same wall, for example. But there are other skills a helper must acquire," he said...
Charging towards the steps of the Pentagon, many marchers managed to bypass the Army's first line of defense and ran into a secondary wall of MP's. Piling up behind the MP's more troops moved in to re-inforce the original line; U.S. Marshals wearing white helmets, business suits and night sticks patrolled the lines. There was a little pushing on both sides, a few minor skirmishes, but nothing very serious. Most of the protestors were satisfied with the ground they had gained-what was later to be christened the "Free Pentagon" -and were convinced that the violence...
After the experience of University Hall, everything changed. Struggling was now the only logical thing for many radicals, and initiating violence made sense strategically. (A Weatherman wall poster in Chicago said, "We have to go on the offensive-not just fight back...
EVERY December prior to the enactment of the New York State budget, John Lindsay has trekked to Albany to bang his head on the legislative wall. This past year he pleaded for help with his expected "gap in the budget" of over $500 million. Governor Rockefeller, "although expressing sympathy for New York City's fiscal problems," said he could not help Mr. Lindsay, for he too had a gap in his budget-$700 million...