Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...media brought the war into our homes and gave us worldliness not from actually seeing the world but from watching it on television. But we could always turn the TV off or put aside a magazine, and essentially ignore both the war and the world. Safe within the TV-bred confidence that everything will turn out all right by the end of the half-hour, Maynard handles the information flood that shows no signs of ebbing by retreating to the blind trust of earlier times, by pleading ignorance, by turning inward...
...George Bennett prepares to leave the post, Harvard's money passes into the hands of another group of men. Bennett's successor, George Putnam '49, comes from essentially the same world of Boston high finance. But bred in a rival business circle, Putnam doesn't have any special allegiance to the policies of his predecessor...
...order? Some of Nixon's critics contend that he set the general pattern in the earliest stages of his political career, when he used some questionable tactics. More important, the closeness of Nixon's first two presidential campaigns, against John Kennedy in 1960 and Hubert Humphrey in 1968, bred an almost paranoid insecurity among Nixon's campaign workers. The slim win over Humphrey was a special shock...
WHEN A MAN returns from a war, he is placed on a pedestal and bombarded with a deadly barrage of questions. "Were you wounded?" people want to know. "Did it hurt? Did you kill anyone?" He is asked to confirm the strange notions of war Americans are bred on: that is is horrible, that it is a nightmare, but that in the end it somehow makes a better...
...with Hollywood, where he also did time as a scriptwriter-his fiction rang not only with the good dialogue but rumbled with a ground base of moral disapproval as well. Farr notes that he never entirely succeeded in sloughing off the element of Catholic puritanism that had been bred in him as a child. Even as late as 1948, in A Rage to Live, O'Hara struck a rather stern tone. His subject-controversial at the time-was an upper-class woman named Grace Caldwell, who suffered from a lust that first shocks and surprises her, then comes...