Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot for the life of me see how a government can pursue this war as if it were justified and at the same time let some persons escape the burden of military service because they believe it is not justified -- not on the principle, but because of an alternative interpretation of the same set of facts on which the government has had to come to its decision...
...American radio executives who were allowed to witness some of the ritual that took place in a Stockholm amphitheater-before being physically ousted-described the proceedings as "irresponsible exercises in frivolity and personal and international theatrics." Gordon McLendon, 45, owner of stations in several U.S. cities, and Donald Burden, 38, president of Star Stations of Omaha, charged that the heavy publicity accorded the trial in many European and Asian newspapers would contribute immeasurably to world misunderstanding of the war and give Ho Chi Minh a mistaken idea of world support. The tribunal, said McLendon, was "a kangaroo court conducted...
...sell paperback rights to other publishers more able to distribute them and eager to pay good advances and royalties, contrary to other university Presses. Harvard's main reason for avoiding the lucrative paperback market is that it doesn't have a large enough staff to handle the extra burden. But future expansion may change that...
...death rather than reveal his constantly changing refuge. As Allied planes drone overhead, the great war outside Buchenwald is echoed by the small one inside. Men whose lusterless eyes have long since accepted defeat and early death begin again to act like people with a future. The precious burden of the boy becomes synonymous with the tomorrow none of them had ever hoped to see. Rumors run through the camp that the war is almost over. And when the Germans continue their pathological extermination of prisoners, the inmates rise up to attack their tormenters with a meager store of guns...
...center of the cast is James Burden Day, a Roosevelt-hating conservative Senator from the Southwest and contender for the presidential nomination. The characters, moving woodenly through a familiar plot about political chicanery, include the usual domineering millionaire publisher, the conniving businessman who keeps Senators in his pocket, the venal journalist, the young idealist, the Communist-turned-anti-Communist, and droves of beautiful, compliant women. Almost everyone is a villain, and Vidal seems to dislike his characters even more than the reader is bound to. The author recently observed that American politicians "create illusions and call them facts." Washington attempts...