Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next time around Reddin may be involved in the race more directly. While he thought about running this year, he has confided to friends, he decided the notion was "too presumptuous"-for the present. After four years as KTLA's chief pontificator, Reddin, now only 52, may find the idea modest enough...
...Alexander Graham Bell in 1900: "I was perfectly delighted to receive your letter in braille. It seemed almost as if you clasped my hand in yours and spoke to me in the old, dear way." And in 1922, after hearing her lecture, Carl Sandburg wrote of "the surprise to find you something of a dancer, shifting in easy postures like a good blooded race horse...
...failed to persuade its young that experience (hence age) counts for something, and that reasonable patience in the attainment of goals is necessary. The cry is for instant gratification, instant realization of ideals. Rosemary Park, former president of Barnard College, urges adults to "examine their judgments. We will find then that their concern with public issues off the campus is a search for absolutes, an absolute wrong to be righted, civil rights; the exploitation of an innocent society to be protected, Viet...
...taste. Tom Smothers pointed out that: 1) there is no Wednesday-deadline provision in the contract; 2) the tape was submitted to the CBS Los Angeles office on Wednesday anyway; 3) the brothers had agreed to snip the offending sermonette. CBS's real motive, said Tom, was to find a costless way to cancel the $4.5 million Smothers contract at a date so late that the other networks could not fit them into next fall's schedule...
Before you destroy a system, propose another that will solve (not hide, shift or disguise) unemployment, "exploitation," war. Anyone can promise Utopia--without specifying a program. Tom Hayden, idol of the New Left, has said: "First we'll make the revolution--then we'll find out what for." Would you employ a plumber who rips out all the pipes in your house before he learned how to repair a leak...