Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Refusing to Answer. Last week's attack was a good indication of the growing strength of the movement to block the confirmation of Fortas and Homer Thornberry, Lyndon Johnson's nominee for Associate Justice. Though the hear ings ended after nine days, more than a score of Senators made it plain that they plan a filibuster when Congress returns after the conventions. Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, leader of the anti-Fortas bloc, claimed that he already had more than enough votes to keep a filibuster going indefinitely...
...despite the perilous squeeze, despite the widespread fear that if Nigeria takes over all Biafrans will be killed, Ojukwu's people have somehow managed to retain surprising morale. Visitors receive friendly greetings in the street and hear the plea "Help us win the war." In the villages, shouts of "Nno!" (Welcome) are accompanied by the traditional offer of a cup of palm wine, still in plentiful supply. With that, the host will usually break open a kola nut-a mild stimulant that helps stifle hunger...
...wife. Drawn from Proverbs 31, it begins: "A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels." Says Mrs. Baris: "I obviously don't need it for my ego, but I've rushed and worked hard all day, and it's nice to hear...
...Stanley plunges into the brilliant intellectual and social haut monde in Salzburg for the music festival. He is a self-conscious blunderer, but the one thing he understands far better than his indifferent friends is the true nature of Hitler's mania. The Jew and Gentile gathered to hear Toscanini conduct Fidelia cling to the illusion that Austria is protected by some ineluctable immunity. But after watching his barber preen in his new National Socialist uniform, and after seeing the troopers take over the best restaurants, Stanley knows that he must get out. He realizes that the society that...
...came a certain discipline. That is what I miss." The self-indulgent style of some of the youngsters coming up in today's foundation-fed music world appalls him. "If they wear sunglasses, long hair and have dirty fingernails, how can I see how their soul is, or hear it in their quartet...