Word: dint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next month interviews with Jane Wyman, Katharine Ross, Harper's Bazaar Editor China Machado; a reminiscence on Carson McCullers (an old personal friend); a film for Melina Mercouri (a new personal friend); reviews and TV appearances; and, on the side, two novels abuilding. Thus it was only by dint of diligent spadework and interminable waiting that TIME Reporter Carey Winfrey cornered the famed interviewer for the following exchange à la mode...
Another factor is Nixon's capacity simply to endure. As a child, he survived serious illnesses and a buggy accident that gashed his skull; two of his four brothers died in childhood. As a politician, he lived through youthful success and middle-aged failure by dint of total industry and a fatalistic belief that in politics conditions create a right time for a man despite his actions. A Navy veteran in 1946, he won a House seat at the age of 33. He was elected Senator at 37 and Vice President at 39. Ten years later, defeated for the Presidency...
...Michigan City waterfront jungle called "The Patch," he was the twelfth of 13 children. His father, a factory worker, was usually laid off half the year. "We had," understates Hatcher, "a very difficult time of it." Instead of surrendering to slum life, Hatcher went to Indiana University by dint of a church stipend, a small track scholarship and his willingness to wait on tables. After earning his bachelor's degree, he went to Indiana's Valparaiso University Law School, where he attended class from 8:30 to 3:30 and worked in a hospital from 4 to midnight...
...name is Sandy Dennis, and she couldn't care less whether you know it. As far as credits go, she is a major star at 30. Yet by dint of personal force and preference, she has thumbed her perky nose at glamour and the constraining star system. In 1963 and 1964, she won Tony awards for her first big Broadway roles, the sensitive social worker in A Thousand Clowns and the delectable mistress in Any Wednesday. For her next big success, the screen version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in which she played the frightened young...
What this adds up to, I think, is that the Volunteer can really be neither amateur nor professional. He has lost that flush of innocence, or amateurism, which makes one think that by dint of honest toil and a boundless faith in human perfectability one can change any individual; on the other hand, he is working at too low a level to have acquired the technician's confidence in his mastery of tools for shaping institutions...