Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regarding "The Overshadowing Issue" [Aug. 2], it is no doubt true that there were over 50 major race riots in the U.S. with whites on the offensive, but I challenge Dr. Franklin's statement that they were not followed by cries for "law and order." I can still remember the horror with which, some 30 years ago, a white man told me of a race riot he had witnessed and his pity for its victims; and though it may seem strange to some, his relation of the incidents was absolutely without racial bias. The fact is that in those...
...himself as the hero of this American dream, even though his intent was plainly modest, seemed cloying to some. And the reference to a train whistle was an oddly old-fashioned note: trains do not symbolize escape and movement to today's young. Yet there could be little doubt that Nixon was sincere here, just as Lyndon Johnson is sincere when he talks about his years of poverty along the Pedernales. Certainly Nixon's audience in Miami knew what he was talking about, and responded...
Smuggler of Truth. The poet whom McCarthy would most like to emulate is William Butler Yeats. But probably his closest direct influence is Lowell, whom he calls a "poet of purity and of parsimony" and a "double agent of doubt, smuggler of truth...
...shows promise as the most natural way to reduce while on a moderately low-calorie diet. One problem, in proving its value, is going to be getting enough FMS. Another is that effectiveness may wear off after repeated doses; so how long treatment can be maintained is still in doubt...
...Friday night Arlo Guthrie was outstanding, and there can no longer be any doubt that Arlo knows other "songs" besides "Alice's Restaurant." Arlo is an artist who is incredibly witty and imaginative and although his raps are somewhat reminiscent of Jack Elliot's, he is a great story teller in his own right and is evolving a form that provides tremendous freedom. Arlo is also an excellent musician, and that fact is somehow reassuring or at least worthy of admiration...