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...
...nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal." With that deliberately provocative observation, the President's Commission on Civil Disorders warned last week that there is not a moment to lose if the deepening division between white and black U.S. citizens is ever to be closed. So critical did the commission find the problem-and so hopeful was it of shocking the U.S. into badly needed reforms-that with a burst of publicity, it rushed its 250,000-word report before the public four months ahead of schedule...
...seem clear. Even with half a million men and enormous firepower the U.S. has not been able to wrest control of the countryside from the Viet Cong. To the revolutionaries this means simply that the U.S. can be beaten. No matter what happens in the future they will not lose this conviction...
...with the profoundest reluctance that I take issue with the Dean's estimate. His assumption that the 30's climate served to accent the economics of The Little Foxes, and that the 60's do not, may be valid; but to acquiesce in and admire this development is to lose track of Miss Hellman and to underestimate her work. Simple avarice cannot have been The Little Foxes' overriding target, as the Dean would wish it to be, and mere human decency cannot have been its message. The economic metaphor encompassing the play is too grand and too well constructed...
...Senator from Illinois and Democratic majority leader under Harry Truman; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rocky Mount, N.C. A confirmed New Dealer, Lucas backed an internationalist foreign policy, farm and social security legislation, proved so adept in cloakroom maneuvering that he was chosen majority leader in 1949, only to lose his seat to an even more adept Republican, Everett McKinley Dirksen...