Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...requires the expenditure of lives and treasure "in countries we barely know"-it was an inward-looking speech, echoing domestic hopes and concerns. "In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry," said the President. "In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write...
...little over two years after a small group of Republicans met secretly in a downtown Chicago motel to launch the Draft-Goldwater movement, the Republican National Committee met in Chicago to complete the final formalities of dropping Goldwater. A few die-hard right-wingers tried to delay the foreordained resignation of Goldwater's personally picked national chairman, Dean Burch, but Barry himself wanted no part of that. At the politics-encrusted Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, Ohio's Ray Bliss was duly acclaimed as Burch's successor amidst a Greek chorus chanting party unity...
...living up to expectations, but in discovering what they really are." The result, according to University of California Sociologist Edgar Z. Friedenberg, is "the vanishing adolescent"-made to mature earlier, yet in many ways still engagingly immature. And since "part of the American dream is to live long and die young," many adults ambivalently relish and resent the teen-ager's freedom and spontaneity. "Our whole culture believes less in authority," snaps a Detroit priest. "Yet the teen-ager is the only one criticized for not recognizing...
...play going on. When the actors take over, War and Peace springs to life-life with all its joyous, grievous and profound trivia, its indestructible reality. Children are born, men and women marry or do not marry, father fights with son and son with father, the old die. Peace is love, war is evil. In war, the young die, husband is torn from wife, the round of daily life is violated and reversed; yet Tolstoy's instinct for portraying the tenacious domesticity of existence makes war seem the great interrupter rather than the great destroyer...
Britain's Labor government is determined to nationalize the country's steel industry-or die trying. The formal debate over nationalization has barely begun, but the intensity of the argument outside Parliament foretells a fight that could topple Labor...