Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy's death has made it clearer than ever that the vice-President must be equipped to take over instantly as chief executive, retaining the trust of his predecessor's advisers and supporters--in short, he must himself be of Presidential calibre. Yet men of great abilities will continue to turn down the vice-Presidency if it remains the job it is today. The man who is theoretically the nation's second highest-ranking official earns his pay simply by presiding over the Senate once in a while, by attending Cabinet and National Security Council meetings, and by doing...
Tracing her death to philosophy, or sex, or confusion demands a clearer characterization than the movie offers. The philosophic explanation presents Nana as fantastically sensitive, young Nietzschean who gains fulfillment in a self-styled artistic ("Everything's beautiful") rebellion. Like the Joan of Arc she cries over in a movie, Nana dies a martyr's death...
Then there were the drifters, the life-collectors. There were only a couple of these. They had had sufficient experience to make them more honest and so clearer about what social effect their participation in the struggle was really going to have, and they didn't talk about it much...
...trip to Cuba planned by three Harvard students, however, should provide a clearer test of the right to travel. First, the political beliefs of these students can by no means be considered un-American. Second, rather than openly flouting the ban, the students applied for validated passports through the proper legal channels...
William Alfred's Agamemnon is only incidentally a Greek tragedy. Rather, a world with a clearer justice than our own, his Agamemnon suits the tuxedoed gentlemen and gowned ladies who made it live in the theatre as well as those, more colorfully garbed, who live it in less pellucid form outside. It is a world of diamantine retribution; the wages of Agamemnon's and Clytemnestra's infidelity are hard and glittering...