Word: commits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People like Allen have been seeking to practice the rights guaranteed to them under law. The least the nation can do is protect their lives. Several partial solutions are open to the Johnson Administration. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has the power to look into many crimes committed in the cause of segregation, but this power is rarely used and is hampered by southern FBI agents who are often in sympathy with the segregationists. A judicious shift of personnel should be urged on the FBI, and its activities in the South should be increased. This would be one step towards...
...athlete, long a symbol of the conflict of time between classes and activities, practices three or four hours daily during season and often has more time to give to studies than students involved in other organizations. But while their academic marks suffer, a large majority of students do commit themselves to heavy organizational responsibilities because formal education in the College is not demanding or challenging. They are seduced by activities only because they are bored, and because they can learn more in the organizations...
Should this happen, it is considered almost certain that Israel will go to war and either occupy the Jordan watershed in Syria and Lebanon, or the west bank of the river. In reply, Nasser would immediately commit Egypt's armed forces in support of the Arab countries under attack. Under no illusions about Arab military inferiority, Nasser does not hope to overwhelm Israel but, instead, to call upon the U.S., the Soviet Union and the United Nations for help...
...prolixity floods all of Aiken's novels. Their action is mostly interior: in Blue Voyage, a playwright broods upon and confirms his own sense of inferiority during a voyage to England; in King Coffin, a paranoid ponders a murder for a hundred pages and then decides not to commit...
Ideals & Technique. Raised in the warmth of a tightly knit family, King developed from his earliest years a raw-nerved sensitivity that bordered on self-destruction. Twice, before he was 13, he tried to commit suicide. Once his brother, "A. D.," accidentally knocked his grandmother unconscious when he slid down a banister. Martin thought she was dead, and in despair ran to a second-floor window and jumped out-only to land unhurt. He did the same thing, with the same result, on the day his grandmother died...