Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court in 1967 upheld the U.S. citizen's right to vote in another country's election without jeopardizing his citizenship...
...Luther's first editions. It has letters of Sheridan and Garrick. One of two recorded copies of the abridged edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of Funny Hill which omits the sexual detail. A vast Goldsmith collection. including the first Swedish translations of the Vicar of Wakefield and The Citizen of the World. First editions of Balzac, Stendahl, and Baudelaire. A theatre collection which includes letters of Booth, working scripts of Jean Renoir, letters of John Gielgud, and manuscripts of Shaw. First editions of Appolinaire, Claudel, Camus. Four of Bonhoeffer's manuscripts, written during his imprisonment. Letters of Gorki...
Johnson has clearly put out the word that he is now very much a private citizen. Those few friends who will talk about what he is up to do so with the hasty over-the-shoulder air of a heister peddling a hot watch in front of a police station. Among his friends, says one intimate, Johnson cannot help noting that the stock market has gone to hell, inflation is rampant and Nixon has had more men in Viet Nam than L.B.J. ever did. But to talk to outsiders about L.B.J. and his works is to court disaster. After...
Whatever negligence may have been involved, an inquest does not seem to be the most efficient way to gather the evidence of it. The public has a legitimate interest in knowing whether or not Kennedy misrepresented the facts of the accident, but a U.S. Senator, like any other citizen, has a right to be protected from prejudicial publicity that may affect some future legal matter. Unless Judge Boyle keeps the testimony within bounds, the inquest could turn into a circus that would be unfair to Kennedy and the other witnesses as well...
...sense of authority, the children of plenty have voiced an intention to live by a different ethical standard than their parents accepted. The pleasure principle has been elevated over the Puritan ethic of work. To do one's own thing is a greater duty than to be a useful citizen. Personal freedom in the midst of squalor is more liberating than social conformity with the trappings of wealth. Now that youth takes abundance for granted, it can afford to reject materialism...