Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. The protagonists of Tom Stoppard's ironic vehicle are the kind of men to whom life is like musical chairs and they, the losers, left without a seat. But they lose with such humor and verve that the spectators, while empathizing, enjoy the game...
...adoption of the whole of the report's recommendations may be too much to expect immediately, some of its proposals, notably parts of its programs to upgrade Negro housing, education, jobs and welfare, could feasibly be enacted by Congress. As the commission warned, there is no time to lose. Ominous harbingers of summer violence were already evident last week in several cities. Windows were smashed, and a Negro boy was shot to death by police in Omaha when a speaking appearance by Alabama's George Wallace touched off two nights of disturbances. A strike by garbage collectors...
...pointed toward military means rather than concessions to the Communists. Under Lyndon Johnson, he said, "we have wasted our military power by using it gradually instead of effectively." Further: "We can't withdraw. We've got to mobilize our effort. We can pull out, but that would lose the peace." For good measure, nonetheless, he accused Johnson of putting too much emphasis on the military aspects of Viet...
...relevant Christianity, and for an avant-garde church that would be "a sign of the emergent city of man." Now Cox feels that the churches are beginning to overstress involvement at the expense of inner religious experience. "Once you transform everything into a mission for social action and lose the intrinsic joy of the spirit of worship, you are in danger of losing both," he says. "You don't really worship and you don't really serve...
They are confident that the Senator will lose the Democratic nomination to Johnson and so "prove" that, even with popular support, an anti-war candidate cannot beat the system...