Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell under Blaine's attack for thinking that the university, instead of being "essentially neutral . . . should make itself a political force . . . by counteracting certain forces which they feel as evil-undermining the Armed Forces, for example, by eliminating ROTC or . . . denying the government access to university facilities...
...many Americas, each one would broaden the perspective of the others. But it hasn't worked that way. The urbane upper-middle class of the coasts ridicules Nixon's mumbling about the silent majority. In Alabama, when a kid from a small town goes to Harvard he can never feel safe in that town again. The eyes of the haggard speechwriters and secretaries are too tired to focus on the Tobacco Road slums five blocks away from the Capitol. When we get excited because a half-million of us have gathered so close to the White House we forget that...
...McCarthyites, the Panthers and Mayor Washington, were all saying in their own way that we are finding it harder and harder to exist in America. We came to this Southern city with its stupid architecture, this pathetic town of ulcers and unreality to say en masse that we feel like orphans, we feel at odds with ourselves and particularly with this war that has grown out of us (do not make it into a mistake), and that we wish to disown a part of ourselves. The sight of the Capitol does not make our heart skip a beat anymore...
Zavelle said he could offer no certain explanation for the rise in thefts among students. "Some of these students complain they don't feel like waiting in line, or they say that the Coop overprices and they're getting their 'fair share,' "Zavelle said...
...Nixon was awake the day before, and he would be awake later on, and he would know that all that time that he slept, people walked by his house shouting the name of a dead man every two seconds. And how warm does he feel inside when he knows that he is being assigned responsibility for a lot of those names and for those to die later? How human is he if he tries to convince the public that this type of thing is to be ignored? Tinsley and I wondered why Nixon wanted us to think that his death...