Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aide, "there are not going to be too many more people we can offend." He ticked off a list of the recently alienated: farmers (by the ban on DDT), the overweight (by the ban on cyclamates) and sportsmen (by the impounding of Lake Michigan coho salmon last spring). "The first problem we have," said Finch, "is 40,000 inflammable Santa Clauses. I guess HEW will be known as the department that killed Santa Claus...
...massacre is more than enough. My Lai is a warning to America that it, like other nations, is capable of evil acts and that its idealistic goals do not always correspond to its deeds. "Those whom the gods would destroy," wrote the late Thomas Merton, poet and monk, "they first make mad-with self-righteous confidence and unquestioning self-esteem." In the light of My Lai, Americans have little cause for feeling self-righteous, and much reason for self-reflection. The massacre may be only one betrayal of American ideals; but is it possible that there have been other betrayals...
According to Christian moral theology, the self-awareness of sin and guilt is a necessary prologue to sanctity; in the prism of psychoanalysis, self-discovery is seen as the first step toward sanity. Individuals are not identical with nations, but sometimes they are analogous. And thus it can be argued that only the nation that has faced up to its own failings and acknowledged its capacities for evil and ill-doing has any real claim to greatness...
...raised in Pine Bluff, Martha graduated from the University of Miami and taught school in Mobile, Ala. She quit teaching after only one year because, she says, "I despised it." During World War II, she married Clyde Jennings, but the marriage ended in divorce, as did Mitchell's first marriage. Martha and John met on a weekend in New York in the early '50s and were married several months later. While Mitchell was a $250,000-a-year Manhattan attorney, they lived in Rye, N.Y. Now they are ensconced in a $140,000 duplex in Washington...
...Kenneth Galbraith and Philip Roth, among others, have been blacklisted for not presenting the most admirable views of American character. But blacklisting was not Shakespeare's idea; it was started 15 years ago, and has been continued fitfully since. Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night was first banned during the Johnson years...