Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hubert Humphrey's entry into the Democratic race diminished the importance of next week's Indiana primary as a campaign milestone. Still, the results will bear considerably upon the fortunes of both Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy. McCarthy scored impressively in the nation's first three primaries, including last week's Pennsylvania contest, in which as an unopposed candidate he collected 402,000 votes, more than twice as many as he had anticipated. The Indiana confrontation will be his first direct square-off at the polls with the formidable Kennedy and his first opportunity to prove...
Student power can be beneficial; student tyranny never is. Student involvement in politics should be encouraged, but student abuse of the democratic process must always be resisted. Students might well bear in mind the fine distinctions between reasoned dissent and raw intolerance, between knowledge and wisdom, between compromise and copping out. Already 1968 has produced one supreme lesson: students have much more to gain by working actively for change within the existing system than by dropping...
...surprise move by Local Board 10 has not upset Krents particularly. He does hope the Army will give him some choice of mission: "If I go, my ambition is to be a bombardier. Then it wouldn't be too bad being a pilot either. I bear no ill feelings to the draft board whatever...
...remember one old man who spoke after a sober and moving exposition of the terrible damage to maternal health caused by forcing a partially crippled woman to bear a full term pregnancy. The old man, who purported to be the leader of a "moral conservation society," asserted that a change in the law would somehow be an extension of the affront to society posed by the hippies "who feel they have a right to live together...
...didn't think of himself as a serious writer." Yet he spent words profligately in an attempt to translate his painter's eye into language, to catch and fix the thing seen and bring all the colors and shapes and textures of the visible world to bear on his narrative. Novelist John Earth calls Updike the "Andrew Wyeth of literature," adding: "I think one has the same mixture of admiration and reservation for the work of both...