Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt the antigun advocates, too, sometimes go beyond what is reasonable or at least practical. Some urge complete confiscation. "I see no reason," says University of Chicago Sociologist Morris Janowitz, "why anyone in a democracy should own a weapon...
...Zagros Mountains where a 5-ft. 8-in. Neanderthal man was buried by his friends on a bier of wild flowers. Pollen from blossoms plucked 60,000 years ago in mourning for the unknown hunter came from primordial hyacinths, hollyhocks, and bachelor's buttons. Proving, no doubt, that the first men were also the first flower children...
Hersey treads carefully amid the welter of conflicting stories about the killings; he gives all the participants, as it were, their day in court. But he leaves no doubt as to where his own sympathies lie. The Negro youths, he asserts, were "executed" not for being snipers but for "being considered punks, for making out with white girls, for being in some vague way killers of a white cop, for running riot-for being black young men and part of the black rage of the time...
...opening sequence leaves the audience in no doubt that Petulia is soing to be pretty tricky stuff. A woman with her neck in a brace is being pushed in a wheelchair through a hospital basement. Sudden flash of rock singer in psychedelic lights. Now they're wheeling her into an elevator filled with other damaged patients. Out of the elevator they go . . . why, it's a big party, a charity dance, the sign says, to benefit some highway safety campaign. George C. Scott, looking annoyed, is leaving. Julie Christie, looking lovely, is trying to get Scott...
This is where the committee comes in. "If the committee is representative, when in doubt, go along with the committee," the senior professor said, speaking for most of the Faculty's attitude on issues which come up at meetings...