Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your review of Oedipus [Oct. Ill, you castigate Chris Plummer for making the King of Thebes "arrogant rather than hubristic," his fate more like "a matter of just deserts than a result of the awesome machinations of Apollo." Face it, baby: Apollo is dead. Nobody prays in the Theater of Dionysius today. And whatever the 20th century gods do, they don't machinate. Sophocles' play, though, lives on. Ever wonder why? Chris was trying to tell you, but you didn't listen...
There were earlier adversities. Bobby Kennedy's death cast a pall over everything. It certainly did over me. I couldn't campaign for weeks. Then I got started and had to stop because I was ill. I was out of action for twelve days [with the flu, in July]. Then along came the convention-the two conventions, one inside the Amphitheater, one outside. What could have been worse for millions of people to be watching while trying to make up their minds whom to vote for? We went out of there destroyed. It's not a wonder...
...shut down-in large measure owing to the actions of one man. At the urging of its belligerent president, Albert Shanker, the United Federation of Teachers again walked out on strike; more than 50,000 teachers abruptly abandoned their classrooms in the latest battle over the city's ill-planned efforts at school decentralization...
...Humiliations. As a substitute teacher in ghetto schools, Shanker was earning only $41 a week as late as 1952. Teachers, he claims, were too terrified of their autocratic supervisors to complain about poor pay and ill-treatment; to help them, he became a full-time U.F.T. organizer. "Part of the early motivation of the U.F.T.," he says, "was to punch the administrators in the nose for all the humiliations teachers had suffered...
...number of candidates who have stood fast both against the war and against domestic backlash is small, their caliber is unusually high. Paul O'Dwyer (N.Y.), William G. Clark (Ill.), Harold Hughes (Iowa), John Gilligan (Ohio) and Alan Cranston (Calif.) are five exceptional challengers who have done much to free their party from the likes of Mayor Daley and President Johnson. Similarly Abraham Ribicoff (Conn.) and George McGovern (S.D.) distinguished themselves at the Democratic Convention, while Ernest Gruening (Alaska), Gaylord Nelson (Wisc.), and Franch Church (Idaho) have performed yeoman service inside the Senate...