Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEDNESDAY At 7:45 p.m., two white California highway patrol officers spotted a car weaving recklessly around the southeast Los Angeles slum districts. After a six-block chase, the troopers halted the car in Watts - and arrested its Negro driver, Marquette Frye, 21. Out of Frye's nearby home came his mother, scolding her son for being drunk. In front of some 25 other Negroes standing near by, Frye started to struggle with the patrolmen. "You're not going to take me to jail," Officer Lee Mini-kus quoted him as saying. "You're going to have...
...think the chase of the Questing Beast breaks down for lack of game, but the by-products of Mr. Lasch's journey are plentiful and fascinating. Given a thesis just vague enough to apply to anybody, we begin to realize that he's writing about, Americans, not just intellectuals; the pathological tone of earlier writings on the subject has disappeared, and a thoroughly entertaining act of scholarship has been committed...
...Absolutely Inconceivable." Dr. Marjorie Shearon, a vehement anti-Communist from Chevy Chase, Md., appeared as an unsolicited committee witness, declared that Fortas was once a member of the left-wing International Juridical Association, that "he has been significantly connected with Communists and Communist fronts over a considerable period of time," and that "his connections were neither trivial nor casual-and I doubt if they were innocent." Fortas replied that he may have joined the group while he was on the Yale faculty in the 1930s because "joining was easy in those days." But "to the best of my knowledge...
Each with its own formal geometry, patterns proliferated with a folkloric poetry all their own: Triple Irish Chain, Windmill, Wild-Goose Chase, Princess Feather, the Drunkard's Path. Some drew from the Bible, such as Rose of Sharon, Star of Bethlehem, or Jacob's Ladder. Others were celebrations of American history: Whig's Defeat, Eagles and Stars, and red, white and blue flag patterns. Others incorporated Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs or laurel leaves, in recognition of Napoleon's neoclassic symbol of glory. Superstitious quilt makers often spoiled the symmetry deliberately in order not to imitate...
Most important, the personal income of the average American continues to rise three times as fast as the cost of living. Said the Chase Manhattan Bank's bimonthly newsletter last week: "While price indexes may drift up gradually, as they have in the past seven years, the real prices people and business have to pay have not increased on the average. And this means that there has been no real price inflation...