Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest worldwide wave of student activism started in the U.S. several years ago, partly as a demand for more freedom and power of decision on campuses. It was stimulated by two larger emotional issues. The first was civil rights. In their demonstrations in the early 1960s, U.S. students discovered that they had the power to move legislators to action. And while they would be horrified at the thought, the students-says Harvard Professor Seymour Lipset-learned their tactics from the white Southerners who used civil disobedience to protest the 1954 Supreme Court decision for desegregation of schools. Out of this...
...stripped-down flat, a cell of Maoist incendiaries gather to plan the decline and fall of practically everybody. The short-wave radio blares a ceaseless stream of news from Radio Peking; quotes from the Chairman are read with the stentorian zeal of the newly converted; lectures propound dialectical doublethink ("A revolutionary party carries out a policy whenever it takes an action. If it's not a correct policy, it's a wrong...
That great wave of massive anti-war feeling that was washing over the country only two months ago has gone back to sea now. And it has left behind calm little peaceful puddles on the beach. People stand over the puddles, look at their reflections in the water and love it. Peace is so wonderful. It makes you forget about...
Society still isn't sure whether photography is a craft or an art. (It's both, like writing.) People think, in the plastic phrase of admen, that "photography is the wave of the future"; but they are generally unable to relate the airy abstract writings of Marshall McLuhan et al to themselves. Not only do people not know how photography works, but they don't know what it can do: most either think one needs a flash to take a picture out of the sun, or they think the camera is a magical mystery tool that might catch them doing...
...first shock wave following the killing, rival stations in many cities met to implement new guidelines. As expressed in a code signed by broadcasters in San Francisco, it was agreed that "the potential for inciting public disorders demands that competition be secondary to the cause of public safety." In most instances, this meant no live coverage of riots, and instructing TV crews to be inconspicuous by traveling in unmarked cars and filming from rooftops and through windows...