Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same floor that Aristotle Onassis often occupied) and his apartment a block and a half up Fifth Avenue. He conducted almost continuous staff meetings, many of them devoted to the talent search for Cabinet members and the 2,200 or so other officials who will make up the core of his Administration...
Motley and Mapson are among the hardest of the "hard core" unemployed -those for whom jobs with any sort of future once seemed impossible. Both are the beneficiaries of one of the nation's brightest new ideas for bringing men and jobs together, a cooperative venture by Government and industry called JOBS...
...Giraudoux has more than frivolity in mind. Below the surface of his comedy is the serious warning that the snowballing forces of materialism, fascism and war must be checked if the human race is to survive. When Herman's turn comes to dig into this serious core, he falls apart. His answer to the dramatic problem is a song called "Garbage," and it's not much better than the title suggests: a supposedly bitter number about the decline in beauty of refuse through the years. While it might make for some laughs (as it does in the original play), garbage...
...lack of interesting new faces in the House. One will be that of Democrat Shirley Chisholm, 43, who won in a newly created Brooklyn district. Mrs. Chisholm will be the first Negro woman ever to become a member of the House of Representatives. She defeated another Negro?CORE Founder James Farmer?in a contest in which sex, of all things, was the big issue. Farmer aides conducted an underground campaign based on the premise that "women have been in the driver's seat" in black communities for too long. Negroes did not significantly increase their House holdings, but another...
...addition to matters of art, Bellow focuses his highly trained and intensely moral intelligence on questions of public responsibility and the possibilities of democracy. The force that his work exerts, however, comes not from political ideology, psychology or poetics, but from a resilient curiosity that encloses a molten core of doubt. What is man? How can he best manage his intellect and instincts? Those are the questions that spur Bellow's fictional quests. He finds no satisfying answers, but his special genius for characterization has progressively narrowed the distance between man's definition of himself and what...