Word: martin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started as a gaudy circus. When the House Select Committee on Assassinations was formed two years ago to investigate once again the killings of President John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., Congressmen vied for the limelight and fought with their abrasive chief counsel, Richard Sprague, who quit within a year. But, to the surprise of its early critics, the committee disciplined itself and did some meticulous though costly work (nearly $5 million by the end of this year). As its public hearings wind down, the committee's sober findings are reinforcing long established official conclusions about the deaths...
...first anniversary of the terrorist kidnaping of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. His widow and children and the relatives of his slain chauffeur and bodyguards attended a ceremony at the simple stone monument on the Cologne street where the abduction took place. Hundreds of other citizens laid flowers at the foot of the wooden cross erected at the site a few days after the shooting. But accompanying the sorrow was a jittery feeling that radiated throughout the city and across West Germany. Many of the Red Army Faction, whose members had killed Schleyer, were still at large, and no one could...
...Neville Marriner, 54, and Klaus Tennstedt, 52. Minnesota is lucky. It has landed two men who have gained formidable international reputations in a relatively brief time. Marriner, conductor of London's Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra, has "charm and wit and intellect," says one London observer. His 200 recordings, many of Baroque music, have pleasingly brisk tempi and a gay, intimate sound. As music director, Marriner will bring his favorite Haydn and Mozart to Minnesota; his weakness may well be that specialized repertoire. But, says he, "if you want to have any impact as musical...
...Throughout, R.F.K.'s opponents are made to look asinine or worse. Hubert Humphrey "chirruped." On the hustings in 1968, Kennedy is consistently praised for his ability to rouse mass audiences to a pitch of righteous frenzy; Lyndon Johnson, meanwhile, "pounded the podium and shouted about the war." At Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta, Kennedy was asked by an English friend where President Johnson was. "Kennedy observed, without bravado, that lack of physical courage kept him away." It is hard to decide which is more offensive, Kennedy's insult or Schlesinger's bland, exculpatory narration...
...Illusion of Technique, Barrett argues that even if we survive, the familiar world may well recede from our grasp, supplanted by systems that aspire to control human destiny. Barrett contends that philosophy can recall us to that world. To support his claim he cites three modern figures: Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James. However divergent in their styles of thought, they shared Kant's conviction that freedom was the principal issue philosophy had to address. For Wittgenstein, freedom resides in the ambiguity of language; for Heidegger, in the fluid, indeterminate character of being; for William James...