Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the events it describes in minute detail, William Manchester's The Death of a President has become a source of endless contention. Phase one of the controversy, the author's public clash with the Kennedy family, has given way to dispute over Manchester's accuracy on several substantive points. Last week Manchester's forthcoming $10, 710-page work came under serious challenge from a $1, 128-page paperback titled The Truth about the Assassination...
...Endless Stream. In the past 15 years or so, he had set out to raise "my people's musical education." He preached against the "highbrow poses" of music teachers who, with their force-feeding methods, "inculcate hatred of music instead of love." His revolutionary techniques for teaching music-using singing, games and pictures-were introduced in 108 elementary schools in Hungary and widely copied in the U.S. and elsewhere (TIME...
...attempt to pass a hasty moral judgment on an international conflict is likely to lead us into an oversimplified formula of thinking and we might fall into an endless circular debate. To avoid this, let's adopt a more realistic point of view. The realistic viewpoint in this case requires us first to examine what this local war signifies in the context of international politics and what its possible solutions...
...This has always been the country of easy answers-easy in the sense of being simple and straightforward rather than complicated. We're the country of the endless frontier, of the big sky, of manifest destiny, of unlimited resources, of 'Go west, young man,' of opportunity for all, of rags to riches, mass production, nothing to fear but fear itself, technical know-how, a chicken in every pot, gung-ho and can do. We have won all the marbles-and it just isn't enough. Further, the U.S. of A. knows or feels that...
...sycophants are simple: in return for a free room here or a $100 ringside seat there, all that is required is to applaud the Champ's incoherent ravings on race and his puerile dirty jokes, and to sit quietly when he telephones his mother and spiels out an endless stream of babyhood reminiscences...