Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration have been driving very hard for an agreement on a bombing halt, accompanied possibly by a ceasefire, in the immediate future." Then the thrust: "I am also told that this spurt of activity is a cynical, last-minute attempt by President Johnson to salvage the candidacy of Mr. Humphrey. This I do not believe." Making the accusation in one breath and disavowing it in the next, he made certain that the charge would be noticed...
...Minutes, defended him. "The question of his being a Greek had nothing to do with it at all, of course: Prince Philip is actually of Greek descent, but as London cabbies are fond of saying, 'He's not one of your restaurant Greeks.' Well, neither is Mr. Onassis one of your restaurant Greeks. He's one of your shipping-millionaire Greeks, and he sounds a lot more fun than Prince Philip." In Paris, Liz Taylor agreed. "Have you ever met him?" she challenged critics of the match. "Well, then stop all this nonsense...
Besides those obstacles intrinsic in the attempt to bring Shaw to life, a few of By George's flaws are Mr. Adrian's, like a build that edges too far from Shaw's gaunt profile, and an accent not in all respects sufficiently malleable. But even apart from the question of looking a gift-horse down the throat, there is no call for gripes, minor or major, about Mr. Adrian's pleasantly contrived evening. The selections themselves, made by Michael Voysey, are for the most part engrossing, and there are times, as with Shaw's mockery of Sir Henry Irving...
...home and shame us abroad? To say that "Affluent intellectuals can afford to care about nothing but the war" is to overlook the fact that the war encompasses a number of issues--the most obvious of which are the concerns of social justice and human rights which Mr. Betts seems so troubled about...
...Mr. Betts is standing on shaky ground when he lectures the McCarthy supporters about social justice and human rights. He seems to forget what happened in Chicago, what is happening in Vietnam, and what has happened in this country to the concerns of social justice and human rights since the beginning of the war. Just what was Hubert Humphrey doing when this war destroyed the hopes of social justice in America and violated the human rights of thousands in Vietnam? Karl O. Rohlich...