Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People are most anxious to talk about it at the Peace Corps office. Bill Moyers, a 28-year-old former Baptist minister, is Associate Director of Public Affairs. "We are under no illusions that this is a panacea. We aren't overly optimistic, and we don't think we're supermen," he said at the outset...
...thinks that "the American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery." He thinks times are getting worse-and therefore better for the satirist. Right now cartooning is "like going into the garbage-collecting business. There's no money...
...Heming-way's answers may be shallow and short-sighted, blindly idealist; his is not the horrifying total vision of Dostoevsky or Faulkner. But perhaps there is still a place for idealistic heroics, for the hard-fighting, well-dying fictions of a Hemingway. The answers aren't all that simple: but it helps to think...
...desire "to do right by their father and the legend he has created." They certainly live by a principle inculcated in them by old Clint. Says Clint Jr.: "There isn't any sense in having $40 million in the bank or even in securities if you aren't doing something to enhance the value of those securities. Dad once gave me a great piece of advice. He said: 'Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell...
...course papers begin to be late; he is overdrawn at the bank; his room starts to look like a laundry bin; overdue library books pile up in corners; study cards aren't handed in; he has given way to his suicidal urges...