Word: committed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school integration, has modified his segregationist views since he was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1961. Nonetheless, on racial issues he still stood to the right of his Republican opponent, A. Linwood Holton, 42, a Roanoke lawyer. Holton campaigned energetically against the poll tax, on which Godwin refused to commit himself, and promised to recruit Negroes for appointment to high office. But the Negro voters broke with their tradition of supporting G.O.P. candidates in state elections. Richmond's almost solidly Negro First Precinct reflected the shift: though it went 10 to 1 for the Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1961, last...
...thought that our own legitimate activities in such a place may be spied upon by the police," said the court. Nonetheless, the place is public, and it is properly subject to peephole surveillance because of "the criminal activities that can and do occur in it. People who choose to commit crimes where they may be seen take the chance that they will be seen...
...once isolated peasant revolutionaries, they now seem to be a substantial army controlled by Hanoi. Their weapons and communication equipment are modern. Both government and newspaper reports claim that these supplies are now being shipped from the North. And it is difficult to believe that the North Vietnamese would commit two army divisions now fighting in the South to a command it does not control...
...political power of big labor have steadily eroded in the past seven years. The machinations of such union bosses as the Teamsters' Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa have tarnished the image of the crusading labor leader. Admittedly, during the 1964 campaign, Lyndon Johnson valued union support sufficiently to commit himself to repeal of 14(b). But, well aware that few Americans these days are impassioned over Taft-Hartley, the President did little to push his bill on Capitol Hill...
...rest of the film is equally far-out but seldom funny. Obviously enamored of Dr. Strangelove, Scenarists Christopher Isherwood and Terry Southern (also co-scenarist of Strangelove) commit the funereal folly of thinking that any joke about death is worth repeating To cremate a pet cheerfully, embalm a baby, or mold crazy expressions onto the face of a corpse (John Gielgud, for example) may be good for laughs among professional crapehangers, but on a giant screen such gags seem merely gratuitous...