Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eternal pressure and constant practice. That's what it means to be the best. Bill Murphy is the best...
...this movement afoot in the Christian society to abolish the expensive, massive and majestic cathedrals [Jan. 12]. In this day and age of constant stimuli, of incessant noise and overpopulation with pressing, vulgar crowds it is indeed unfortunate. Heretofore they represented one of the few remaining places where a man could go to think quietly, in relative safety-and be alone...
Meanwhile I was getting used to sleeping under mosquito nets while educating my ears to the booms produced by different kinds of American ordnance used on the outskirts of Saigon at night. The noise of shelling competed with the constant drone of helicopters and jets taking off and landing at Ton San Nhut, only a ten-minute walk from the International Voluntary Services house. During the day I tried to get to know Saigon and imagine what it might look like without its oppressive cocoon of sandbags, barricades, rolls of concertina wire and black exhaust soot (military traffic has created...
...lives," says a friend, "in constant motion"-careening around freeways in his green 3.8 Jaguar sedan, hobnobbing with such Hollywood types as Edward G. Robinson and Director Vincente Minnelli, fencing with Film Composer Bronislau Kaper ("Not much control," says Kaper, "but great imagination and aggressiveness"), digging jazz at Drummer Shelly Manne's club, singing all the parts in impromptu living-room opera performances with such musical friends as Ivry Gitlis and Pianist Daniel
...Constant trips to court, finding lawyers, raising money for legal defense and operating in a climate of general insecurity are real tests for any movement group. Worst of all, police harassment is rarely dramatic and usually does not lend itself to raising basic issues to the public at large. Police harassment and prosecution of draft refusers operates very quietly and can be very effective at isolating and demoralizing movement groups...