Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modest crowd did not quite know what to make of this murmured confession. But it was evocative, and impressive. Shortly afterward, the session broke up; parents and students drifted away to attend the formal ceremony of awarding degrees...
...Barbara Bain accepted her third Emmy for her role as the ladylike spy in the Mission: Impossible series. Then she took an unladylike poke at CBS and the series' production company, noting that "there are a couple of people I'd like not to thank. Since they know who they are, I won't name them." Reason for her ire: she has dropped out of the series in sympathy with her co-star and husband Martin Landau, and his reported demands for a pay hike...
...almost worse than if God had died. Not very many people know God, after all. But saints are another story, often they are local boys who had made good. Thus when word came out of Rome last month that some saints had been dropped from a new liturgical calendar (TIME, May 16), both their devout followers and a surprising number of nondevout allies were outraged. The Vatican apparently viewed the new calendar as a routine liturgical change, hardly noticeable in an age of guitar Masses. But the Pope might just as well have issued an encyclical against baseball...
Despite a weakness for the gratuitous aside ("That was Gene McCarthy; he didn't know when he was licked"), Witcover usually keeps his feelings for Kennedy in check: his high esteem for the man comes through all the stronger because he also criticizes some of his actions. Taking Halberstam's Hamlet comparison a step further, Witcover sees...
...uptight? I'm relaxed. Life is fun. Great fun is high art. What do you read? Interviewer: Well, I just read I Am Mary Dunne, by Brian Moore. Jackie: I am what? Mary Hun? Never heard of it. Do you have children? Interviewer: I have three. Jackie: I know your type. You have French records on while you're feeding the baby and someone else telling you about the opera. But I'm glad you have three children because now at least I know you've done something...