Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crusade that set for itself no less a task than the conquest of poverty. No doubt the goals were too ambitious. Between the exaggerated aims set forth in overblown speeches by the campaign's leaders and a hardening attitude on the part of Congress, there was no middle ground, and disappointment was the inevitable result...
...when Playboy magazine heard about his predicament, Publisher Hugh Hefner's Playboy Foundation helped underwrite a habeas corpus petition. On the narrow legal ground that he was allowed to plead guilty without having been informed that he could have attacked the sodomy law constitutionally, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out Cotner's conviction by a 2-to-l vote. He is now free, after having served three years of his sentence, and is living with his grandmother in Illinois...
...bird's-eye perspective," a method that relies on three vanishing points instead of one. Though long known, it was rarely used before the 20th century came along with its airplanes and skyscrapers. The viewer thus placed, as it were, in midair, may well feel as though the ground were falling away beneath him. For any 20th century man, the sensation may carry the added shock of recognition...
...clapping, singing and playing all through the night while Aretha watched intently from a corner. Once, at a funeral for an aunt of Aretha's, Clara Ward was singing the gospel tune Peace in the Valley; in her fervor, she tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha had the spirit, all right; after her first solo in church at the age of twelve, excited parishioners crowded around her father, saying, "Oh, that child can sure enough sing...
...this author who sports the name of the 18th century philosopher of capitalism and who gambols over the arcane and volatile ground of Wall Street and international finance? John Kenneth Galbraith pleads innocent. Is the Wall Street Journal perhaps sheltering an upstart? No. Impeccable leaks lead to George J. W. Goodman, 37, a former Rhodes scholar, novelist (The Wheeler Dealers), onetime writer for TIME and FORTUNE, and now editor of a journal for mutual-fund managers. A shade under medium height, conservatively sheared, dressed and spectacled, Goodman blends in perfectly with the traffic on Wall Street. He is the archetypal...