Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sight of grinding poverty stalking the land in slum areas and on tenant farms is saddening enough, but it is difficult to find a name to fit the man who would exploit the misery and suffering of those less fortunate than himself by threatening to use them in massive marches, sit-ins and camp-outs, demanding speedups on his own terms to tremendous social and economic changes already afoot in the land...
...month before the presidential election of 1964. The entire issue was an examination of the "unconscious of a conservative," based largely on answers to a questionnaire sent to the 12,356 psychiatrists listed by the American Medical Association. Of the 2,417 who replied, 657 said Barry Goldwater was fit for the presidency, 571 declined to take a position, and 1,189 called him unfit-the latter in no uncertain terms. Some of their opinions: "emotionally unstable," "immature," "cowardly," "grossly psychotic," "paranoid," "mass murderer," "amoral and immoral," "chronic schizophrenic" and "dangerous lunatic." One psychiatrist even felt that a proposed Goldwater...
...students think the Faculty vetoed Shipman because he didn't fit in. Sims explained. "He's a Texan, large, a little clumsy, and he speaks with a drawl. He's not polished--everyone else around here is polished--but he's a good teacher and very receptive to students. He keeps his door open to students...
...recognizes, however, that his heavy administrative chores may consume most of his time. In addition to coping with all the news that's fit to print, he has a lot of personnel problems to sort out-the running status struggle, for instance, between the New York office and the Washington bureau that culminated in the abrupt appointment of James Greenfield as Washington bureau chief last February and his equally abrupt dismissal when Washington, led by Reston, protested. "I've had a wonderful life out of this paper for 29 years," says Reston. "I've been asked...
...Channing an actress of tremendous range, Dean Gitter the possessor of one of the most authoratitive stage presences about, Tommy Lee Jones an actor with a true gift for insightful readings, Stephen Kaplan a protean comic figure, and Marilyn Pitzele a remarkable dramatic and comic singer. Each term will fit the rest of the cast as well, and as may well be imagined, the permutations are incredible. I leave you to work out the details...