Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II, he was arrested by the American Army and incarcerated in a Washington insane asylum as mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. He was released in 1958. Last May, Pound was nominated for the $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal by the literary commit tee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The nomination was rejected by a vote of the governing council. The academy president, Physics Professor Harvey Brooks of Harvard, wrote a confidential letter to certain members pointing out that many of their peers had suggested that memories of the war were still so sharp...
...those about to receive degrees are eligible, and competition is almost literally cutthroat for spots on the national dailies: Asahi (circ. 6,000,000), Yomiuri (5,800,000), Mainichi (4,700,000), Sankei (1,900,000) and Nihon Keizai (1,400,000). Disappointed candidates have been known to commit suicide...
...Correspondent David Bonavia-just before Bonavia was expelled from the U.S.S.R. -"If they beat me, I will say anything. I know that from my former experience in the camps. But you will know it will not be the real me speaking. Another thing, I shall never in any circumstances commit suicide. So you will know that if they say I have done away with myself, someone else will have done...
...recent Berrigan case. Wherever violations are found, the Justice Department will have to either disclose the details of the eavesdropping or drop prosecution. Wouldn't it be only proper to inform anyone who has been illegally overheard? "Hell, no," said Kleindienst. "Our duty is to prosecute persons who commit crimes. We don't have to confess our sins anywhere, like some bleeding heart. We were acting in good faith...
...thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood...