Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tribal influence have been minimized. But since this has not changed its central importance in the daily routine, the primary result has been to keep most people politically passive. The government remains irrevelant. This remoteness, in the long run, may tend to undercut stability as much as regional friction...
...annual club elections--neared the Machine's candidate for the coming year, who may have been picked when a freshman as a potential president, was generally opposed by another faction. The Machine almost invariably won, and then was violently opposed for the next year by the losers. The friction helped to animate the club...
...ideology is as important as Stephens says, it follows that the greater the conservative-liberal spirit among club activists, the more likely there is to be friction--and excitement--in the club...
...superficial characteristics that most college students have come to associate with New Left people. In private conversation, he speaks softly, slowly, locking eyes with his listener. In public speeches, he's forceful, fiery, even dramatic. His conversation is sprinkled with phrases like "doing their own thing" and "friction in the machine"; he quotes Stokely Carmichael and Paul Goodman...
...turning in a draft card is more than a symbolic gesture. It causes friction in the machinery: resistance. Maybe we can get a two or three per cent slowdown. We have to face up to the fact that there isn't going to be a revolution in this country. Maybe we should start talking about change.... The true radical makes any changes...