Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there seemed a kind of fastidious smirkiness in Delbert Latta, then by contrast Fish and Mayne, Kastenmeier and Mann exuded a quiet and impressive earnestness and integrity. (Kastenmeier displayed probably the most imposing arched eyebrows since John Barrymore's.) For all their differences, the commit tee members clearly seemed to share the camaraderie of ship mates on an awesome voyage that none had chosen but all must take, to whatever...
...Nixon's creation of a secret White House squad of investigators, called the "plumbers," the brief argued that this too was a proper effort to protect national security and that "the President never explicitly or implicitly authorized anyone associated with this unit to commit illegal acts," including the Ellsberg burglary. Surprisingly, St. Clair claimed that Nixon deserves credit for informing the judge in the Ellsberg trial of this burglary since "there was no legal obligation to report the break-in." In fact, the judge had been seeking information about the Government's investigatory tactics against Ellsberg for weeks and dismissed...
...professor, fond fellow, decides that "what he really ought to do [is] sleep with Wendy ... as soon as possible. She would see then that he was only a man like other men ... He didn't want to commit adultery, he told himself, but it was his duty...
...fight against the Greek dictatorship as Z was, the connection between what went on in Spain 35 years ago and what's going on in the Mediterranean now is anything but farfetched. Spain marked the end of a peculiar epoch in modern history, a time when intellectuals dared to commit themselves to political causes, to believe passionately in them and to fight for them. It was an heroic era, and Rossif's film is in part a memorial to that heroism. Showings begin at 7 and 9:30, admission...
...American-equipped 1.1 million-man army. It also discusses weakness and instability in the Thieu government and refers to signs of a "serious crisis" in Saigon. With only a minimum of hyperbole, it talks of such chronic problems as "less rice, escalation of prices, people so hungry they commit suicide. U.S. aid is being reduced. There is not enough money to pay civil servants and soldiers. The single resource left is emission of bank notes ... These weak points are basic, lasting, difficult to overcome and increasingly serious...