Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading of the cruel slaughter of the young harp seals in Canada [March 21], I experienced a feeling of very great and utter sadness. When we no longer care about the very young and helpless, we deserve all the horrors we may reap...
...paraphrase the late President Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for your security, but what you can do for your country's sanity." The former is no longer even theoretically attainable-and that ought to be a liberating realization. The latter, God help us, may yet be salvaged, and our children's unguaranteeable future humanized...
...movies, which are consistently more erotic than any cabaret act, are keeping customers away. While the Block has the reputation of being one of the safest places in town to walk after dark-the cops give it very special attention-incidents of muggings and robbery are no longer uncommon. "They lure them out of here where there's all these lights and go up the street where it's quiet," a bartender explained. "They don't want to ruin a good thing...
...Certainly his own outline for an end to the war?for Hanoi to "acknowledge its aggression against South Viet Nam and accept to end that aggression"?seems an unlikely outcome. The Communists have done too well in the war for that. On the other hand, neither side any longer takes very seriously the idea of an outright coalition government; neither side wants it, and no one can imagine that it would survive longer than a few months...
...society. Parochial schools keep the average per-pupil cost to an estimated national average of $300-less than a half of the $625 it costs to educate a child in public schools. It is no bargain for the taxpayer when a Catholic parent decides that he can no longer afford the $100 or more in yearly tuition that a parochial school may cost. A Catholic-school official in New York estimated that transfers into public schools will add $30 million to the state's education bill this year, perhaps $50 million next year. If all nonpublic schools in Wisconsin...