Word: street
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burn in their lust one toward another, working that which is unseemly as it were, might very well be only a nefarious experiment on Mother Nature's conglomerate known as the Human Race, and that we creatures really have very little to say about which side of the street we shall follow? Heaven knows, there's not a mother's son among us who woke up one sunshiny morning and suddenly decided, "This is my day for boys...
...unfavorable reviews of his book, The Making of a President, 1968, White attacked the "increasing concentration of the cultural pattern of the U.S. in fewer hands. You can take a compass with a one-mile radius and put it down at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 51st Street in Manhattan and you have control of 95% of the entire opinion-and influence-making in the U.S." On William F. Buckley's TV program, Firing Line, White suggested breaking up the networks. "Let's say we can rear back and pass a miracle bill. We would say only...
...Main Street...
...agents, dressed in chinos and sweaters, entered the shabby air-conditioning repair shop and arranged to take it over for the day. Scratching peepholes in the painted-over storefront window, they squinted patiently at the doorway across the East Village street. Pasted next to the peepholes were pictures of the suspects, some snapped surreptitiously at peace rallies by other FBI agents in the guise of press photographers. A crackling radio brought terse reports from about a dozen other teams staked out near by. Finally the agents spotted their prey and set a dragnet into operation...
...spring, when he suspended classes for a day and held a mass convocation to debate M.I.T.'s role in society. This fall, when he learned that militants were planning disruptions in November, he immediately began canvassing students and faculty-in dormitories, at informal "rap" sessions and on the street. Patiently explaining his position, he gathered support for a plan that will gradually shift a large portion of M.I.T.'s research from military to social needs...