Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muncie, Ind., you might have to worry about a job, but at Harvard you don't have to worry," many of our fears remain unstilled. We question what value our education will have when we leave Harvard's womb, and few of us can be certain of the answer. Some of us see, whatever other motives are involved, that lawyers and doctors are always in demand, and scurry off to professional schools; the rest of us wait and wonder...
Although these reports seemed based on journalistic crystal gazing, there was no doubt that Brezhnev was indisposed and incommunicado. If Brezhnev should be too sick to rule, who would replace him? The answer may prove as problematical as the tangled mechanics of the transfer of power in the U.S.S.R. Although a General Secretary is supposedly elected by the 241 full members of the Central Committee, in practice he is designated by 27 men, members of the Politburo and the Central Committee Secretariat. In the past, this elite has scarcely been inclined to invest real power in any single individual...
...There never has been an uproar about paying or not paying, but this is our first Nixon-type speaker. What if next time we invite someone like Jane Fonda or the Berrigan brothers there is protest? They've been arrested. I don't know what answer we can give," he said...
...Democracy is a luxury that we cannot afford. There must be guidance from the top, and it will be in the direction of socialism, for that is the only answer for Africa. " So said President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania 13 years ago on the eve of independence from Britain. Today Tanzania faces economic disaster. After a visit to Tanzania, TIME'S Nairobi bureau chief Lee Griggs sent this report...
...leading force of red-baiting and repression during the intense Cold War period in the late 1940s and early '50s. It included among its victims the "Hollywood Ten," Charlie Chaplin, Paul Robeson, and numerous others of greater and lesser note whose only crimes were either to refuse to answer questions concerning their political affiliations, or to acknowledge past membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. Many of the former group wound up in prison for contempt of Congress; many of the latter found their careers and livelihood destroyed...