Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba last week. A decade has elapsed since the barbudos (bearded ones) strode down from the Sierra Maestra to crown their revolution and take over the Caribbean isle, and the years have taken their toll. Ernesto ("Che") Guevara is dead, killed in Bolivia in an ill-fated subversion attempt. Camilo Cienfuegos, another of the early heroes, is also dead, killed in an air crash shortly after the takeover. Posters in Havana today poignantly proclaim: "We are doing well, Camilo...
...promise that Cuban sacrifices will soon be rewarded by a richly productive decade-but only after another "year of decisive effort, a year of 18 months," in which Cubans may have to trade even their holidays for back-breaking work in the boondocks. After the initial, unsuccessful attempt at rapid industrialization, the emphasis has been on agriculture for the past few years. Outside San José, a town east of Havana, a huge billboard proclaims that "agriculture is to the revolution what the mountains are to guerrillas." While there has been a serious effort at crop diversification, Cuba continues...
Cosmopolis is John Secondari's attempt to assay the urban crisis, and it is so successful that it manages to transform TV journalism into art. Editing shots of teeming Tokyo and sprawling Los Angeles so that they follow one another with a kind of rhythm, the producer-writer-narrator never lets his visiting experts stay on camera too long. Instead, Secondari uses the visual part of his program to show what the architects' voices are talking about. There after, he juxtaposes imaginative plans for cities of the future with the rot now growing at the cities' hearts...
Less radical members of M.L.A. were appalled. "If the M.L.A. starts taking political stands," said Executive Council Member O. B. Hardison of the University of North Carolina, English department, "it may spell the death of this organization. This is an attempt by 300 people to control 28,000." On the contrary, says Kampf: "The association should stimulate its members to personal and active concern with educational and social issues...
...does not suggest that such a search will find its final expression as a universal religion, and disassociates himself from any attempt to create a "theological Esperanto." He sees, in fact, a continuing pluralism, but a more confident one, in which all religions more fully appreciate the commonality of human experience that unites them and the diversity of approach that mutually enriches them...