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“Trump channeled ethno-populist rage as naturally and charismatically as George Wallace had during the 1960s, while seating a billionaire cabinet.” quote by Joy Reid — Download Open image

“Trump channeled ethno-populist rage as naturally and charismatically as George Wallace had during the 1960s, while seating a billionaire cabinet.”

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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

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Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot…

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Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure…

Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail.…

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[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

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Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life…

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“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone tapped, while federal agents followed him everywhere. Forced to go underground, he later entered the drug trade & eventually got good at it. However, he told my friend, soon after this nobody kept tabs on him--he…

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I was never bothered about my position in the industry. If I had believed in it, I wouldn't have allowed anyone to get ahead…

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Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer…

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My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say…

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There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation.

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