Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hawaii is his demand for unequivocal assurances from L.B.J. that the Paris parley does not foreshadow unilateral American with drawal from the war. Other requests: a U.S. guarantee of South Viet Nam's territorial integrity, a commitment to uphold his constitutionally elected regime, and a promise that no attempt will be made to arrange a cease-fire by bringing the Viet Cong into a coalition government. Johnson is apparently primed to assuage Thieu's fears, emphasizing that nothing has been held back from Saigon and that no amount of coffee-break talk has persuaded Hanoi...
...Angeles County has 50 police forces, including the L.A.P.D. Educational qualifications range from nonexistent to four years of college. Oddly enough, almost no force gives even a rudimentary psychological exam ?surely an essential requirement for one of the most sensitive of all occupations. Many suburbs and small cities attempt to solve serious crimes with techniques that would have seemed elementary to Dr. Watson; some big-city police laboratories have every detection device that modern science can provide...
Sidey's attempt makes compelling reading nonetheless. Neither a chronological record nor an academic analysis, this "book of glimpses" is an intensely personal look at a baffling and often infuriating figure "whose great energies and desires even he is sometimes at a loss to explain." Sidey shows how deeply the hard times in the Texas hill country affected Lyndon Johnson, how he maintains the conviction that "the world is simply Johnson City in megatons." Sidey also describes how Johnson's struggle for wealth and power left him with an "incipient chip on the shoulder," how his laudable legislative...
...psychiatry professor, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, who with utter seriousness takes Styron to task for referring to Nat Turner by his first name. "Is this familiarity by the author part of intuitive white condescension and adherence to Southern racial etiquette? Is this reference and the entire book an unconscious attempt to keep Nat Turner 'in his place'? Would the novelist expect Nat Turner to address him as 'Mr. Styron'? Perhaps no one can ever know the answers to these questions...
...attempt to render the account as believable as possible, Hersey chose to construct the book from court testimony, police records, newspaper accounts, sometimes inaccurate, of the shootings, and a series of interviews Hersey held with survivors, policemen, and the families of the slain men. This technique succeeds, more or less, in achieving the believability for which Hersey strives, but Hersey's refusal to allow himself any room for speculation forces him to leave unanswered some of the most important questions about the events of that Wednesday night...