Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hunting License. The spirit of '32 has been rekindled by volatile "Jango" Goulart. After 2½ years of political zigs and zags and soaring inflation, the President last month lunged sharply left, seeking power in ways that deeply disturb and alarm many of his countrymen. Goulart has cut off all discount loans from the Bank of Brazil to politically unfriendly banks, has nationalized oil refineries and threatened to expropriate almost everything else in sight. He favors legalizing the Communist Party, is campaigning also for sweeping constitutional "reforms" that would enfranchise millions of illiterates, lift the constitutional...
...disturb one inch of our ever-popular "banks of the Charles" is to rob us and our children of one of Boston's "crowning glories." We must not become an asphalt jungle...
Despite persistant oversimplification, Blake makes him point well: we have turned and continue to turn "our beautiful inheritance into the biggest slum on the face of the earth." He leaves little doubt that perversions of our natural beauty should disturb us far less than our failures to recognize and correct them...
...with silence for six months. Hence, in order to dramatize its position and rally the Negro community, the NAACP has called for a one-day boycott of public schools on February 26. Many usually reasonable people, Cardinal Cushing among them, are horrified, fearing that the stayout will confuse and disturb the children involved. While sincere, this fear reflects the "ignorance is bliss" attitude that has long blocked racial progress in the city. Prejudice must be recognized and wrestled with; it will not vanish...
...refuge offered by a former mental patient (Robert Shaw), the elder of two misfit brothers. Shaw collects things-bales of newspapers, a disconnected faucet, a kitchen sink, a bud vase full of screws-and he speaks and moves with the stony detachment of a man who will never again disturb the balance of his uneasy truce with life. His goal is to build a workshed out back: "Then I'll be able to do a bit more with the house." The younger brother (Alan Bates) retains some link to the workaday world but expresses his frustration in bursts...