Word: committed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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World President Edward J. Daly expects that by 1970, his tour revenues will reach $100 million a year. But partly because of Viet Nam airlift commit ments, inclusive tours will not get into full swing until late...
...once defined what made his tabloid sell: "The real appeal of the News is that it lights up the narrow routine of millions of lives with gleams from the great outside. Its readers thrill with second-hand emotion they will never know: they shudder from crimes they will never commit, they quiver with courage that shall never be theirs...
Artists, professional men and top executives commit suicide more than other people; two in every 100 doctors kill themselves, perhaps because of the ready availability of the means (a factor that also ups the suicide rate of policemen and soldiers). More surprising is the high rate of suicide among psychiatrists...
...perceived a change. At the beginning of the semester, more than 1000 students (including graduate students) signed interest cards, and the initial general membership meeting atracted about 200 people. Disaffection with the war seemed to be growing, and SDS members believed that people were increasingly willing to commit themselves. Moreover, there was another stimulating issue: the draft and class rankings. SDS was virtually the only organization eager to take an active stand on the rankings...
...commit themselves to the exploration and expression of specific problems which intrigue them, rather than to a manner of presenting solutions. Throughout their careers, they approach these problems from many points of view and in very individual ways. These artists are often as inventive at creating new ways to formulate questions as they are at finding the answers. Their individual works can never be more to them than an incomplete exploration of the subject. Yet the very fact that the pieces tend to provoke questions rather than provide answers lends greater intrinsic interest to them...