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...always steamed the windows and bored the ascetes of college dining halls. In fact, the tab collar set of the '50's were just so un-radical they were dubbed "The Silent Generation." Growing up under McCarthyism, they had an instinctive fear of speaking out against the status quo. The newness of the hydrogen bomb and the strength of the Communist monolith validated the Cold War with an incredible rationality...
Money for repairs, for improvement, for uplifting, has gone instead to political purposes, to salary raises for our lady School Committee member's retainers, to placate her custodians, to reward her principals, to reward the Superintendent himself for his steadfast dedication to the morbid status quo for which she and he equally stand. All evidence, all confirmation of the inferior status of the ghetto schools has geen ignored, denied, refuted. Even the blunt fact of racial segregation, known well to anyone in the schools dealing with normal vision, went for many years unadmitted and was repeatedly denied...
...President reiterated his desire to negotiate, but in the softest terms yet. He made no demand for a prior, specific quid pro quo from Hanoi. "The United States is willing to stop all aerial and naval bombardment of North Viet Nam when this will lead promptly to productive discussion," he said. "We of course assume that while discussions proceed, North Viet Nam would not take advantage of the bombing cessation or limitation." For the first time, Johnson seemed to be wigwagging a readiness to stop the bombing and enter into talks without advance guarantees or gestures from Hanoi...
Irrelevant Ideology. Looking up from the Cuban brink, both sides found that a political and military equilibrium had been reestablished. "A geographical status quo that had seemed too abnormal for endurance had endured so long, at last, as to begin to seem normal." Eastern Europe was working itself free of Moscow's grasp; trade between the Europes was eroding the Iron Curtain; ideology on either side was losing its relevance. "As with the conflict between Christendom and Islam centuries earlier," concludes Halle, "the slow churning forces of secular change were transforming the conditions on which the cold...
...ultimate symbols of the posh, respectable vie boheme. They live in the suburbs that the Rolling Stones Knock in their songs. They have never dropped out from society. They have never had to slum it to gain a sly, detached, enlightening line of sight on the status quo. They are idols to the hippies, prophets to the establishment, and fetishes to the teeny-boppers...