Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feared that the emotional strain would force a return to the alcoholism she had suffered in the 1940s, and she had acted in a moment of confusion and panic after Government agents had threatened to separate her from her husband, a British subject. "I have no emotion except joy and a wave of feeling that this is my country," said Dr. Anthony. "I feel now like getting an American flag and hanging it outside my door...
...privileges until, through medical and psychiatric help, they have their problem under control. Alcoholism is hard to define and detect, and to penalize a man for such a vaguely defined condition is not consistent with the American concept of civil liberty. As a result, Borkenstein advises against suspending licenses except in cases of frequent alcohol-related violations...
...Martin, 45, engineer in charge of operations on the Saturn SII rocket, feels that he has a secure marriage, but he fits the pattern to a remarkable degree. Except when a moon shot is in preparation, he plans his day to get home for dinner, chats first with his five-year-old daughter, then with his teenage girl. After dinner at 6:30, he retires to a den, where the family knows he is not to be disturbed. He reads technical material for about two hours, eases his tension by drinking a beer and smoking the one cigarette...
Fortunately, in everything except babies, early Shaker craftsmen were astonishingly productive. They invented a flat broom, an apple parer, a circular saw and many other labor-saving devices. Even now, their spare yet elegant furniture and utensils seem so modern that they are sought after and copied by architects and designers. Shaker villages were oases of austere grace and functionalism. "Wherever you go, you feel that you are beyond the realm of hurry," wrote one visitor in 1877. "There is no restlessness, or fret of business, or anxiety; it is as if the work was done...
Freeing Power. Black theology views the possibility of violence calmly. "As I look at the American scene," says Bishop Johnson, "I see no possible way to change the structures of injustice except through violence. I hope my vision is wrong." The only Roman Catholic present at the meeting, Father Lawrence Lucas of Saint Joseph's Church in Harlem, draws on the "just war" tradition. "Deliberate, planned violence can be morally justified, and violence can play a role in effecting social change," he says...