Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to me that a common devotion to liberal ideals among activist students and the rest of the university may account for some curiously contradictory results during the course of the Dow episode. Such feelings were, I think, one source of the wave of punitive sentiment that at first swept over what I sensed to be an overwhelming majority of the faculty. Apparently many in the majority saw in the demonstrators, not a loose band of frightened youngsters momentarily holding hands to stop what I still think is part of the real threat to intellectual freedom, but a potentially totalitarian...
Waiting Game. He told his mostly conservative listeners what they wanted to hear. "The Great Society," he said in Texas, "is not the wave of the future but the end of an era, a dismal rehash of the 1930s." Welfare is "a colossal and complete failure," he said in Des Moines, where he once was a sportscaster and a liberal Democrat. "Let's stop being our brother's keeper, and be his brother. Let him keep himself." On Viet Nam he repeated his hard line. "Attrition has been more costly than a quicker and more violent effort...
That was also the summer when the great wave of Northern students went South to work for civil rights. There they viewed community organizing first hand. Many came back itching to create a SNCC in the North. When they found SDS was doing just that, they joined...
...fingers over her heart to show grief, stunning Audree Norton manages to evoke all the romantic passion contained in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's How Do I Love Thee? In a short Chinese poem, Bernard Bragg, who studied under Marcel Marceau, creates visual haiku with the line "a wave carries the moon away and the tidal water comes with its freight of stars," by forming a crescent with his upraised hand, then slowly lowering it over an undulating outstretched palm. The signing of Joe Velez makes more hilarious sense out of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky than the words ever...
...profit companies that duplicate products and services. Ironically, the Socialist government has been the primary booster of a trend toward bigger business, and in 1966 formed the Industrial Reorganization Corporation to promote and help finance regroupings in industry. As it happens, the chief beneficiaries of the government-sponsored merger wave are groups of experts who act as brokers for companies in search of a good...