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Word: breathings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing halt, accompanied possibly by a ceasefire, in the immediate future." Then the thrust: "I am also told that this spurt of activity is a cynical, last-minute attempt by President Johnson to salvage the candidacy of Mr. Humphrey. This I do not believe." Making the accusation in one breath and disavowing it in the next, he made certain that the charge would be noticed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AUGURIES OF A BREAKTHROUGH | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...Gerald Scarfe offers us a breath of creative originality with his freshness and individuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Idyllic Suburb. Those advertisers who have crossed the color line are now confronted with a new problem: how to portray the Negro. Self-conscious to a fault, integrated commercials never show a Negro as a heavy or in a menial position. Nor are blacks ever afflicted with bad breath or body odor. Kool cigarettes, for example, casts a Negro actor as a bright young trial lawyer; Viceroy casts another as a bright young stockbroker. Schaefer beer has a junior executive type who plays hand ball at the club with a white friend, who throws his arm around his shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: Crossing the Color Line | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...left for good, the young often speak in total disillusionment. "O.K., it's clear. We see how things are," says a 26-year-old Czechoslovak mathematician. "We won't ever go back. The Russians have strangled us." For older people, Dubcek's adventure provided a fresh breath of freedom that was too precious to give up. "You live 20 years in fear of your life, and then it gets better," observes a 50-year-old medical technician who fled to Paris. "You can never go back to what life was like before." Intellectuals face perhaps the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE WANDERING CZECHOSLOVAKS | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

Elusive Bliss. Despite such symptoms of strain, Arthur Okun, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, insisted last week: "The economy is moving into improved balance." Yet in almost the next breath, he told a Manhattan meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board: "If ever there is to be a year of bliss for the American economy it will not be 1969." Predicting that consumers will soon slow their heavy buying, Okun forecast a gradual slowdown of economic expansion. Along with that, he said, will come a rise in unemployment, a profit squeeze on business, and continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Still Too Fast for Safety | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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