Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case to rest now are greater than the liabilities inherent in a reinvestigation. The Warren Commission's failure has cast widespread doubt on the government's ability to perform its self-appointed tasks. A new investigation -- marshalling the full resources of the Federal government -- cannot fail to come closer to the truth than did the Warren Report. And at worst, it will substitute an honest area of doubt for an unjustified and increasingly shaky certainty...
...hopes of bringing Hanoi closer to the negotiating table, President Johnson last December suspended U.S. bombing raids over North Viet Nam for 37 days. Though the Yuletide gesture drew only gibes from the Communists then, pressure for another pause is now mounting. Last week it appeared likely that the U.S. might again respond with some kind of conciliatory gesture...
Suffocating & Ugly. Whatever the Ríoses may suffer from-and they are all desperately poor-it is clearly not repression. Anthropologist-Author Oscar Lewis found them "closer to the expression of an unbridled id than any other people I have studied." As in his earlier experiments with total sociology -Five Families, The Children of Sánchez-Lewis lets his subjects tell their story into a tape recorder. In Sanchez, this approach produced something very much like poetry, as a fiercely proud, slum-dwelling Mexican family exposed their seams and their hearts to Lewis' patient, uncritical machine...
...startling that Michigan and Berkeley complied with the subpoenas without lifting a legal finger. It is more frightening, because it hits closer to home, that Harvard doesn't know what it would do if subpoenaed for membership lists. The matter will be under discussion soon, Dean Monro said last week...
...leftist intellectuals to take any interest in the later Dos Passos, once said of his work: "I know of none-not even Kafka's or Faulkner's-in which the art is greater or better hidden. I know of none that is more precious, more touching, and closer to us. That is because he takes his material from our world...