Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pertinent to your excellent article on middle age are those lines from Chesterton's great epic, The Ballad of the White Horse: "But the hour shall come after his youth,/ When a man shall know not tales but truth,/ And his heart fail thereat...
...bill specifically prohibited blockbusting by making it unlawful for real estate agents to coax homeowners into selling by alarming them with stories of a Negro influx.) Wherever white residents resist the impulse to get out and cooperate in integrating a Negro family in a neighborhood instead, values not only fail to fall but frequently rise. The first Negro family moved to Baldwin, L.I., eight years ago, and nine soon followed; houses then worth $9,000 are now selling for $17,000, paralleling the general trend in steadily increasing realty values. According to a study of 1,810 neighborhoods...
Reston also suggests that the Sunday papers run an "Issue of the Month" feature, which could lend a wider perspective to the major current problems. He feels that, in general, we are so concerned with the events at hand that we fail to look ahead or behind for trends in the news which could provide clues to the best possible foreign policy...
...caves and nurtured the revolution that was later to overrun the country. In Yenan, intellectuals served as peasants, peasants as workers, workers as soldiers. Mao's great fear is that young Chinese who, in his words, "have never fought a war or seen an imperialist," will fail to inherit the fiery revolutionary zeal that marked his early followers...
Finally, Goat-Boy is arrested and turned over to a lynch mob. His last message is, "To Pass All, Fail All"-A twist on the Biblical text, "He who loses his life shall preserve it." On the gallows, rope around his neck, Goat-Boy gets a reprieve. Then he disappears. He is 33-Christ's age at death...