Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sovereign Choice. Parliament's Tory and Labor backbenchers last week held a three-hour debate on Common Market entry. (Macmillan and Labor's Hugh Gaitskell were conspicuously absent to ensure that the issue did not come to a premature vote.) Though Britain's immediate problems in entering the Common Market are economic-protecting her farmers, safeguarding Commonwealth trade-the ultimate question involved is national sovereignty and prestige. This issue cuts straight across party lines...
...Absent Edges. Omnibus Producer Robert Saudek presented a reasoned argument centered in the idea that the "networks must not go on, in the name of freedom, polluting air they do not own." His proposal: set up several nonprofit organizations, staffed by experts in various fields who would select programs; the networks would simply function as agents selling air time, but would have no control over shows. Writer-Producer Robert Alan (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Aurthur, whose rhetoric was particularly eloquent when he was describing the "cold, slitted eyes of advertising men," revealed that low-flying, low-quality ABC, the network...
...done without show or procedural fanfare. And yet, amid all the patient and infinitely cumbersome machinery of justice based on the Roman law, the Anglo-Saxon "sporting spirit, the notion of the law as a game of skill with handicaps to give each side a chance, is entirely absent from the Continent...
...when brisk, jet-borne academic types whisk in and out of Washington, the legendary absent-minded professor is an anachronism. But New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook still conforms to that older, homelier image; he has been known to enter the shower wearing pajamas, and he once absently rejected the Oedipus Complex as a tool of philosophy by exclaiming: "I learned that stuff at my mother's knee...
...climbed aboard, began roughing up the Freedom Riders before cops broke up the brawl. At Birmingham's Trailways Terminal, another mob charged the bus, swinging fists, blackjacks and lengths of pipe. Although the terminal is just two blocks from Birmingham's police headquarters, the cops were conspicuously absent when the blood began to flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later: "Our people of Birmingham are a peaceful people, and we never have any trouble here unless some people come into our city looking for trouble." Said Alabama's Governor John Patterson: "I cannot...