Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blunted impression. Many of us, for example, reject a good deal more than 20% of the articles we are asked to write. Many of us, also, though in our late 30s, still find ourselves constantly rejecting offers of "other ways to make money"-such as editing. But the main point is, I think, that most of us still like to approach writing -whether for magazines or books or newspaper supplements-more for the sake of expression than income, more in search of truth than rewards; and we are not so much caught up in "an American dream" as still seeking...
...reading your story about Sandy Dennis [Sept. 1], it seemed to me I might have given a wrong impression to your interviewer. We discussed Sandy's "shyness" with most people other than those she has known a long time. I pointed out that her main interests aside from acting were reading, her home, and her animals. In that context, I meant to convey that because of her shyness, she would naturally respond to animals easier than to most people. I could have, with honesty, also included her natural and loving response to children and theirs...
...feel like an ant on a dart board," says a young U.S. Marine at Gio Linh, the American artillery base carved out of the top of a hill overlooking North Viet Nam (see color opposite). The camp's main gate bids a black-humor welcome to "the Alamo of Viet Nam." Like neighboring Con Thien to the west, Gio Linh is the merest outstretched fingertip of the U.S. presence in Viet Nam, an isolated and vulnerable outpost less than two miles from the Demilitarized Zone. It lies in a no man's land that has become the bitterest...
...fourth "summit conference" of the Organization of African Unity in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, heads of state from 18 African nations passed a number of resolutions that could go far toward bringing order to the Continent-if anything is ever done about them. One of the main achievements of the conference was that the chiefs were able to assemble...
Marx's main purpose was to prove that capitalism matures into a monster and collapses from the ineluctable logic of its own laws, which tend to create monopolies and to oppress an increasingly impoverished working class. He introduced the theory of the surplus value of labor, which held that a commodity's value is determined solely by the labor that goes into it; as Marx saw it, the capitalist pays the worker only a poor part of the real value of his output while skimming off the surplus as unjust profit. In perhaps the most widely touted passage...