Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scent, but most of those who were so inclined had come stoned--it would have been almost crass to light up in public. By and large, however, the police seemed to be breaking in a new summer approach. They were being friendly. News must have reached them that the word was out in hippy havens across the country that when Berkeley dies Boston will come alive...
Then somehow the effect wore off; I don't pretend to know why. I think I began to take Jarvis at his word--I permitted other thoughts to pass freely through my mind. And since I did give my awareness free play, after a while the other thoughts--books, girls--pushed my monotonous mantra out of mind most of the time. Yet "forcing" the mantra was the practice we were warned against most. In any case, I find it impossible to return to the old technique...
Last week's meeting in Rochester, N.Y., opened with the usual applause but ended in astonishment. Joe Wilson, 58, caught 2,200 attentive stockholders unaware at the meeting's close with word that he was stepping out of day-today management, would devote himself to "long-range planning." And "with a sense that this is a great milestone for Xerox," he announced that his title of chief executive officer would pass to C. (for Charles) Peter McColough, 45, the company's president since...
...radical transformation in both economics and politics. The profit motive must give up its place as the primary mainspring in American life, yielding to "a cooperative, rather than a competitive, ethic." To solve the nation's problems, money must be allocated "uneconomically," in the historical sense of the word, and "wasted" on such uncommercial values as "racial and class integration, beauty and privacy...
...compulsive 16-hour days carrying his message to labor unions, college kids, civil rights groups and social-welfare organizations. He makes about ten speeches a month, and will be a principal speaker at the Poor People's March in Washington this month. Greying and intense, he delivers the word like an old-line Socialist trained by Jesuits...