Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the '50's, when Nixon was Vice-President, John Foster Dulles liked to explain that he wanted to build up a gigantic bomber fleet that could contain communism simply by devastating any country that liked land reform too much...
...bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Northern Laos is at the opposite end of the country. Chomsky interviewed one Laotian refugee in a concentration camp outside of Vientiane recently who told him that the U. S. had bombed his village and forced them to move into the hills and build tunnels to protect themselves. Then the U. S. bombed the tunnels, so that they had to move yet farther out and build more tunnels. The U. S. eventually forced them to build new tunnel systems to house the entire village nine separate times. There are supposed...
Peace: Vietnam Referendum 70 Committee is sponsoring a picnic-cookout from 5 to 10 p. m. on July 1 at Dana Square, Cambridge (bounded by Pearl, Magazine, Lawrence and McTernan Streets). Music and food to build a movement for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam...
...develops out of unsatisfied material needs, and the subsequent desire to transcend want. Tribal rain dances were a plea to whatever controlled the material welfare of the people. The Mass represents a similar dissatisfaction with mundane needs, if only because they have been left unsatisfied, and the desire to build a larger world where such want is insignificant...
...watched the construction workers eat lunch in downtown New York. I began to understand why they wanted to beat up college students. They have to build buildings that no one wants, and then they have to eat lunch on the smelly, steaming tar and blacktop. Or they have to sit on concrete steps, eating a mushy egg salad sandwich about two feet from blaring car horns and smoking exhaust pipes. It they work near Fifth Avenue, they may have to watch women- the models that TV has told them to call beautiful- parade in front of them. Magazines...