Word: behaviors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last someone ventured to express the unanswered questions crucial to the character of a possible presidential candidate. Perhaps the electorate of Massachusetts can disregard the negligence and irresponsibility of Kennedy's contestable behavior but, with your unrestrained query, can the nation...
...crept quietly away from the scene without saying anything to anyone, leaving car and corpse to be discovered the next day without his assistance. The laws covering a situation like this are stringent-nay, merciless. Such a private citizen would pay a very stiff price indeed for his irresponsible behavior. Yet it seems that Edward Kennedy intends to pay no price...
Perhaps the most critical judgments of Kennedy's behavior in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne came from the nation's editorial writers and columnists. Many editorialists agreed with the Tulsa World, which wrote: "We can honestly feel for the Senator in his time of terrible anguish, but our Presidents must be elected for their reliable strengths, not out of sympathy for their misfortunes." The essence, said the New York Post's Max Lerner, was that "at a crisis moment in his life, when another human life was at stake, Senator Kennedy was either thrown into confusion...
...same time, there is a high degree of skepticism about Kennedy's explanation of the accident and his behavior afterward-and about the incident's bearing on his presidential aptitude...
...BEING ON TIME: Punctuality has become a virtue that we demand of those around us. Waiting is a squandering of time that angers people in rich countries. Only personal mismanagement, or the inconsiderate behavior of others, will create brief-and highly irritating-periods of involuntary idleness...