Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sorry to hear Bill Buckley is mellowing in his middle years. I rather looked forward to a Buckley infinitely more corrosive in his dotage. A Jonathan Edwards reborn in rage, who would describe for us all the exquisite torments of liberals in the hands of an angry...
...recall the statement of William F. Buckley Jr. after the last mayoralty election: "I will never seek elective office again, unless I hear directly from my Maker." Now comes word that Mr. Buckley will seek elective office again, as a member of the Yale Corporation [Oct. 27]. Good grief, does he know something that we don't know? Can it be that not only is God at Yale, but a member of the Yale Corporation...
...recall a part of the Inaugural Address of President Johnson's predecessor, and I can still hear these words as they were spoken that bright, cold afternoon of Jan. 20, 1961: ". . .in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside...
After years of jamming, Russians are now allowed to hear the BBC, Radio Liberty and other Western radio stations without interference. The youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has taken to giving teen-agers advice on such formerly taboo subjects as "How short should a miniskirt be?" The socialist answer: Every girl should decide for herself, depending upon the attractiveness of her legs and the chilliness of the weather. Public-opinion polls, which were long banned, have suddenly become a craze. One question not being asked: Do you approve of the job that Premier Kosygin and his colleagues are doing...
Dickey expands on these ideas in short homilies on the "new morality": "You go to hear ministers in church and you have a feeling that you're listening to fossils. They talk about honor and chastity--who believes in those things anymore? We know the delights of the sexual relationship. . . . Nowadays if you want to f---somebody, you do, if he or she is willing. You just do it for whatever there can be for both of you. This is why The Scarlet Letter is so quaint to us--all that agitation about fornication...