Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vicious cycle--a reputation for inaction does not attract action-oriented people. Young Dems echo each other in articulating the problem; few see a way out of the cycle. The panacea offered most frequently is leadership--a charismatic leader for the club who would both attract a devoted following and, in the words of a former Radcliffe coordinator, "get people to think they're giving their time for something worthwhile. It's all a question of security--people don't want to commit themselves to something that might be a bust. Freshman Cliffies are so vulnerable to being used...
...District of Columbia drunk with the argument that alcoholism is a disease, not a crime (TIME, Nov. 27), and they decided to do the same for Driver. They took their case to the federal courts, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision that promises to echo across the U.S., upheld their argument. "The alcoholic's presence in public is not his act," argued Judge Albert Bryan. "It may be likened to the movement of an imbecile, or a person in a delirium. The upshot of our decision is that the state cannot stamp an unpretending chronic...
...Elusive Echo...
...onetime mayor of Florence-who purportedly had interviewed Ho and his Premier, Pham Van Dong, early in November. Through U.N. General Assembly President Amintore Fanfani, the would-be diplomatists reported breathlessly that Hanoi was now "prepared to initiate negotiations without first requiring actual withdrawal of American troops." In an echo of Lyndon Johnson, Ho was even quoted as saying: "I am prepared to go anywhere, to meet anyone...
...young bank clerk, Claude Mann, gets hooked on the game. He goes with his friend to a casino near Paris, where sounds echo off bleak, cold walls that resemble an early-morning subway station. Claude wins the equivalent of six months' salary in 10 minutes. He breaks with his tongue-clicking petit bourgeois father and takes off for the big time at Cannes...