Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roses that the marchers carried in gaudy abundance. In an emotional speech before the League of Jewish Women in Atlanta last week, Vice President Humphrey-just back from two weeks in Europe-quoted Pope Paul VI as telling him: "America's moral power is being eroded by the manner in which your country is being interpreted in the eyes of the world." With tears welling in his own eyes, the Vice President said: "America needs to tell the world of the lives it is saving. We need to be known as a nation of peacemakers, not just peace marchers...
...presidential contest-with costly TV and radio commercials-requires vast amounts of money, or that basic changes are needed to ensure that wealthy candidates do not enjoy unfair advantages. The Long Act, named for Senate Finance Chairman Russell Long, sought to solve the problem in a deceptively simple manner. Basically, it allowed each taxpayer to check a box on his federal income tax return allotting $1 (on joint returns, $2) of his tax payment for presidential campaigns. The taxpayer could not denote what party or what candidate he wanted to receive his money. The fund would total about $60 million...
Clearly, the civil rights movement will continue to stagnate if it remains a one-issue pressure group. It must now try to encourage Negroes to dissent--in a politically viable manner--from a policy which may commit too many of America's resources to Vietnam indefinitely...
...answer by itself did not satisfy Martin. He rejected many a positive-sounding venireman because his manner showed a sign of unsureness that might possibly aid the defense. To confirm it. he asked: "Would you sign a verdict of death?" Faced with that specter of personal responsibility, some veniremen backed down...
...concentration camp in May 1945, has run to earth 800 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann and, most recently, the wartime commander of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps, Franz Stangl (TIME, March 10). In this calmly chilling memoir, Wiesenthal contrasts monstrous murderers with gumshoe detective techniques in a manner as spare and striking as anything Dashiell Hammett wrote. Where Hammett's world was big-city crime, Wiesenthal's is the broad scope of human injustice and horror: he becomes a kind of Intercontinental...