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Word: except (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...leftist and be a patriotic American. When a symbol becomes a fetish, then you make the semantic error of confusing the symbol with what it is supposed to symbolize." The flag in theory symbolizes national unity, but such a unity in the U.S. has always been somewhat illusory except when war or depression joined together the nation's disparate cultures to overcome an overriding threat. In any case, national unity can never be legislated or policed into being. Ideological bullying cannot conjure it up when it does not exist, nor when it does can the infantile desecrations of the radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Owns the Stars and Stripes? | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...responsible for informing the world press is named Major Am Rong. The name provides endless amusement for reporters and diplomats alike-a respite from the anxiety. Though Major Am Rong has enough information to answer questions for half an hour, the space reserved for written releases is empty except for a plaque. Stenciled on it is a legend: NO NEWS TODAY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Phnom-Penh: What Is Going On? | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...until he is 26 and his eligibility expires. However, under the new draft system inaugurated last December, he is only eligible for a period of one year-that is to say, if he survives a year of draft eligibility without being called, he becomes exempt from the draft except in times of national emergency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draft Lottery Picks July 9 as Number One | 7/2/1970 | See Source »

...April, it's gotten much worse. Flash is pissed at the polities. He says they're all from Harvard and M.I.T., and marched into the Square and fore shit out of it without thinking of the people who live in it-like Flash. But here Flash is probably the exception. Most street freaks probably think of themselves as revolutionary vippies now. The Weatherman Declaration of War that came out of the Underground a couple of weeks ago said to look for the Weathermen all over America. wherever there's free love and dope. "Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Freaks Living in Our Streets: Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom | 7/2/1970 | See Source »

...reached a shrill, unintelligible climax which would be drowned out in the applause of the moderate group, and the angry cries of the PL members. He said PL did not want to align with any sell outs, and then accused PL of feeling that everyone was a sellout except themselves...

Author: By Story STEVEN W. bussard, | Title: The Cleveland Conference: What Did It All Mean? | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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