Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subjects. We were just as idealistic and insufferable but with one large difference-no one paid much attention to us. Now, as I gag on the reams of print, the albums of pictures the news media give these youngsters, one consoling thought comes to mind-they, too, will grow...
None of the seven cast members has made much of his character, in part because they lack definition in the text. Burnering deals with a father and two daughters moving away from each other as the daughters grow too old to give their father the devotion he so completely dotes on. Leastways I think that's what it deals with. Mr. Burnering is the father, a terribly conceited man whose conceit has been reinforced for years by his worshipful household. John Franchot, who plays him, conveys little more than this conceit and makes no visible attempt to suggest either...
...Some day, I keep hoping, you will grow out of this thing you have for dictators and stop your juvenile swooning over every two-bit muscle man who comes along promising to make the trains run on time by jailing every lefty and long-hair in sight. Now you're whitewashing your new Brazilian hero with the same holy water you have sprinkled so smugly over similar free-world saviors, such as Thailand's boss. This brings to mind your fairy tales about Diem ten years back. If we are to avoid getting ensnared in other tragedies like...
Says Staughton Lynd: "The key question is whether the movement will grow beyond its student base and produce men who will carry their radicalism into middle age and beyond." The New Left leaders are afraid of the American talent for assimilating dissent-and this is already happening to some of their ideas. Practically everybody has a kind word for decentralization, in the interests of efficiency if not humanity; the war on poverty, while now bogged down, will be carried on. Even the guaranteed annual wage is not beyond the capacity of modern industrial society. Thus quite...
...South Viet Nam. But with commendable caution, Saigon is holding elections only where the safety of the voters from reprisals can be reasonably assured. Thus only about half of the nation's citizenry in the countryside will vote this summer; but as Allied control and influence continue to grow, each newly secured area will join the march to the polls...