Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when contrasted with the inability of the Saigon regime even to hold its own during the four-and-a-half years of American intervention, seem to establish beyond question that the NLF substantially represents the South Vietnamese people. A revolutionary movement like that of the Vietnamese cannot be sustained by terror, but depends ultimately on the allegiance of the mass of the population. The NLF has clearly won this allegiance, and the Provisional Revolutionary Government is the legitimate government of South Vietnam...
...doctors announced that some medical groups will march from hospitals Wednesday to join the afternoon rally at the Boston Common. Some doctors and students who cannot leave their work Wednesday will wear arm bands saying "Peace." A few hospitals will hold "peace vigils," showing documentary films on Vietnam...
...when the athlete happens to have achieved journalistic immortality purely by chance, or by a flash of brilliance that he cannot hope to duplicate again, his deification takes on a tone of poignancy, as if it is almost a matter of time until the athlete falls from glory...
...gilt-edge Eternal Rest Coffins. In the same way, the horror of the political trial in this country is not that it tries to exterminate opposition but that it coats it over with gooey legal semantics or refuses to deal with it at all. Clear light and creative action cannot be seen through the democratic quagmire. And thus the logic of preferring a George Wallace who says what he thinks and is openly repressive to Nixon or Humphrey becomes immensely more clear. So does the fact that government and polities really do operate in a Machiavellian universe...
Rejection Slip at 15. Daughter of a tool and die designer, she grew up outside of Lockport, a small city in western New York State. In a one-room schoolhouse, Joyce Carol's writer's reflex quickly asserted itself. She cannot recall a time when she was not setting down or thinking about a story. Her first submitted novel -250 pages devoted to a dope addict redeemed by getting a black stallion-was rejected by a New York publisher as too depressing for the 15-year-old market. Joyce Carol quietly accepted the verdict, though...