Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news analysis has to compete with hard news for prominent space in the paper. Although it is true that Americans are in general more interested in what is happening than why it happened, Reston feels that it is the duty of the press to shift the emphasis toward the latter. He thinks that the major newspapers in the big cities could probably be convinced to allow for a little more educating and a little less reporting...
...What a tender and perceptive look at middle age! Still, the idea that youth is at a disadvantage because of what it lacks in experience is a sour grape most of us in the latter group will not willingly swallow. Let us look for the compensations of our stage in life without tearing up the memories of the days when we too were young and blissfully ignorant...
...Tammany has a West Campus as well as a rival East Campus, the latter occupied by the Nikolayans (Soviets), who are Founderless. Life on West Campus is regulated and dominated by a computer, WESCAC, which is challenged by its twin, EASCAC, the deity of East Campus. Campus life is affluent and almost totally permissive, but pocked by student riots (wars). Under the shadow of EAT-ray (nuclear destruction), the campus is haunted by death and doubt, trembles on the edge of a new revelation. Some students seek revelation through existentialism, sex or student-unionism (Communism...
...peaks of Baldy and Old Scab, Douglas and his bride appeared blissfully unconcerned by the headshaking on the Potomac. "We don't get much news around here," drawled Douglas. "On the short-wave radio we can listen to the broadcasts from the Bureau of Reclamation and Peking." The latter, at least, should be worth listening to if Peking approves the Justice's plans, sanctioned last week by the State Department, to visit Red China with Cathy this September...
...latter-day Rome," Paisley sneered to his followers before marching off to the jail, "once again dips her hands in the blood of saints, and is drunk with the blood of saints." The saint would return, Paisley promised, and even run for Parliament. Within hours, fresh signs blossomed on buildings and sidewalks: "Paisley for Prime Minister." And by week's end, angry mobs of Protestants had taken to the streets, smashing windows, overturning cars, and battling police...