Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisions as the occasion demands. "Everyone, including the Administration, was extremely hopeful that the commitment would never be as great as the commitment is today," he said. He added diplomatically: "It is extremely important that Congress and the President be as nearly as they can be on the same wave length...
Full-time guards cost even more than vandals, so schools are turning to mechanical protection devices such as Chicago's ingenious sound-wave system, whose disruption lights lamps, sets off bells and sirens and alerts everybody in the neighborhood. Because this is so expensive, Chicago generally uses a $12 "Prowl Alarm" that greets intruders with an unearthly howl. But Chicago authorities would prefer putting police dogs in every school...
...desperate bid to wrest command from extremists, King declared nonviolent war to remedy the slum dweller's plight in Northern cities, promising a wave of civil disobedience, school boycotts, marches, sitdowns and sit-ins instead of fire bombs and snipers. "Mass disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force," declared King. But there were doubts about whether his S.C.L.C. could actually organize such nonviolent rebellion-or keep it nonviolent...
...Father Murray's views came triumphantly into their own with the wave of aggiornamento begun by Pope John XXIII and carried out after a fash ion in Vatican II. Despite the Curia's success in keeping him out of the first council session, he was on hand as an expert for the second, and when the bishops rose to applaud the passage of the declaration on religious liberty, which confirmed the right of all men to freedom of conscience in worship, many of them felt that the applause was really for John Courtney Murray...
...last, the acidheads have hit Hollywood. A clear successor to the cycle of psychoanalytical films of the '40s (Spellbound, etc.) and so far about as insightful, is the first wave of movies offering a far-outside view of the mind-bending potentialities...