Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good year for predictions. Only 100 of Nixon's votes are "safe," most of them coming from Western and Midwestern states where he is all but unassailable. And though Humphrey's only truly secure territory is the District of Columbia (3 votes), his candidacy is not altogether bankrupt...
...Maitland's defense damn him. They are the reproofs of his decay, shadowy chroniclers of loss, rejection, betrayal and defeat. His upbraided, put-upon clerks are walking legal briefs, drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife (Eleanor Fazan) attests Maitland's bankrupt marriage. He resorts to his sage and patient mistress (Jill Bennett), not to exchange the gift of self but to flee from self. His casual office couchmates simply represent a frantic release of tension in the friction of flesh. Maitland propositions girls with brusque self-regard: "Do you like...
Lindsay said he favored a guaranteed annual income which would supplement the income of those below a minimum poverty level while creating an incentive for self-improvement. Lindsay called the present system of welfare "bankrupt...
Nonsense & Nostalgia. Though the Dadaists were determined to break with what they considered the "spiritually bankrupt" styles of cubism and futurism, they borrowed many cubist techniques. While they claimed to tweak the nose of logic, and build their art by happenstance, it was in fact highly rational and ironically detached...
Most all of the nation's big-city mayors were unreservedly enthusiastic about the report-particularly at the prospect of snagging more federal funds. "I have practically spent our city bankrupt trying to meet the problems in our community," said Newark's Mayor Hugh Addonizio on NBC's Meet the Press...