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...peace since World War II, thus producing a Balkanized world and bringing the danger of nuclear war much closer. Looked at in this fashion, he says, Charles de Gaulle's present policies constitute "an adventurist and irresponsible nationalism" that has already "helped bring the world closer to a disregard of the deadly facts of the nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Seeing De Gaulle Plain | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...radical tradition is still alive: it is present here in this church. Those of us who disregard organized religion, I think, are making a mistake if they also disregard this tradition and its presence today. This tradition is something to which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'A TIME TO SAY NO' | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

Otis Redding's age was deceptive. He was 26 when he was killed but he seemed much older. This is largely because he had perfect taste and a disregard for fashion. For one thing, he never confused expressiveness with frenzy, the way Wilson Pickett often seems to do. Redding was absolutely uncompromised. He never felt obliged to cater to night-club audiences in the way Ray Charles does and Sam Cooke--who died three years to the day before Redding--did (though Cooke was coerced by the orientation of the company he recorded for). Redding was infinitely far from...

Author: By Christopher M. Bello, | Title: The Death of Otis Redding | 1/11/1968 | See Source »

Redding would often sing in subtle opposition to the beat. In "It's Too Late," on the album "Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads," the opening comes so close to being in disregard of the music, and yet is not quite, that somehow the sound expresses complete desolation...

Author: By Christopher M. Bello, | Title: The Death of Otis Redding | 1/11/1968 | See Source »

...students said they are "deeply troubled by the legal, moral, and political implications of the war in Vietnam," and "cannot condone the clear disregard for human lives" involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty-One Law Students Declare 'We Won't Go' in Letter on Draft | 12/13/1967 | See Source »

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