Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enterprises, but more importantly in those small, splendid efforts that make headlines in the neighborhood newspaper instead of the national journal. With these, we today can build a great cathedral of the spirit, each of us raising it one stone at a time, as he reaches out to his neighbor, helping, caring, doing...
...Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor. Other commentators are effervescent or stern, puckish or olympian, earnest or remote. Reasoner comes across as warm, witty and involved not only with the news but with his audience as well. Everything about his face - the grey-white shock of hair, shaggy temples, rugged chin, deep smile lines flanking a spreading nose - seems square, safe and reassuring in a 'chaotic world. His manner brings viewers a message that middle-class values...
...Following orders, he dropped it into Biscayne Bay on Thursday morning, just offshore from a stretch of overgrown lots south of downtown Miami. A local resident, wakened at 5 a.m. by the sound of an approaching outboard, saw a white Boston Whaler being beached on a neighbor's lawn and, because of a recent rash of burglaries, phoned the police. Because the FBI had not bothered to notify the police of the ransom dropoff, two officers responded to the call. They spotted what appeared to be two men, one carrying a duffle bag, the other a suitcase...
...against injustices precisely because of a profound faith in man's perfectibility. The epic journey of the loads was a warning against the evils existing within the American system, but the migrants were presented as the actual guardians of all of the national verities: family loyalty, trust of neighbor, devotion to the land. Steinbeck's dogma was uncommonly wholesome for a radical of the '30s. Avoiding customary Communist cliches, he affirmed children, home, mother and young love. "Nothin' but us," says Ma Joad, "nothin' but the folks...
Nodding yes, expounding ecstatically, she joins Moonlight's marathon. But the soul needs so much pruning and the next-door neighbor is always backing up over it. Her guilt is impotent. But the cake tastes good, and bread is tiresome...