Word: glinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glint in His Eye. Soon Schlesinger was taking an active hand in Democratic politics. A staunch anti-Communist who early took the far left to task for "following the policies of the Soviet
Stevenson bandwagon in 1952. During that campaign, says a friend, "he got a glint in his eye that never left." But two straight crushing defeats nearly dispirited him. "Stevenson came along too soon," he lamented in 1957. "Americans, after a generation's buffeting by depression and war, had to have a breathing spell. Even by 1956 they had not had their fill of inertia...
...defeat took the glint away from two superb individual performances for Harvard. Though he seldom was able to shake loose for a clear shot Keith Sedlacek's shooting was deadly; he had 23 points for the night. And center Barry Williams played fiercely aggressive basketball for 40 minutes, dominating rebounding and scoring 18 points...
...Watts was a smoldering ruin. Wisps of smoke still curled from the skeletons of charred buildings. Wrecked cars lay around the streets like swatted beetles. Sidewalks were buried under huge shards of glass and chunks of concrete that had filled the air at the riots' height. The glint of sunlight on thousands of brass cartridge casings gave the eerie look of an abandoned battlefield−which it was. "This is just a quietness," said a Negro minister. "The riot is not over...
...such chronic debtors, many psychiatrists detect a glint of masochism. "Consider the language of debt," says Manhattan's Dr. Harold Greenwald. "People have to 'beat someone out of his money,' or debtors are 'pushed to the wall' by their creditors." One of Greenwald's patients wept after he paid off his last creditor; he felt as if he were leaving someone who needed him. San Francisco's Dr. Alfred Auerback believes that overwhelming debt creates enormous tensions and strains within families. "Young people today," says he, "assume they should have...