Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against such service smacks of something other than democracy. To relieve a fellow of national service merely because he possesses a Ph.D. (or may, or could) or because he doesn't really want to serve does him and his country a severe disservice. He should be precisely the person called upon to perform the meanest of services, for he is supposedly the most resourceful...
...Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 29, whose benefit appearances in the past have included ban-the-bomb marches, standing up in Castro-style fatigues to sing Fidel's freedom song, Guantanamera. Before the moon was down, leonine Poet Robert Graves, 70, advised the kids on using drugs: "A real person needs nothing like that." Unnecessary advice, since most of the poetasters were already high on beer and left the hall in a shambles...
...pummels Mayor Daley more than anybody else ("The greatest public-works director in the country; he just doesn't dig people"). But he has as much fun flattening lesser dignitaries. When he took out after Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn, Royko wrote: "Remember, back in 1959 Quinn was the person who put Chicago under its first atomic alert. He blew all the air raid sirens late one night because he got a kick out of the White Sox clinching a pennant. And anyone who can talk his way out of sending people into the streets in their shorts to await...
Another valid definition of a hero is "a person regarded as a model." In The Natural, Novelist Bernard Malamud has one character explain: "Without heroes we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go. . . It's their function to be the best." But excellence is not enough to make a hero, nor is willingness to challenge the odds; those qualities may merely add up to leadership. "Heroism should not be confused with strength and success," says Author John Updike. "Our concept of the hero must be humanized to include the ideas...
...person in custody is to be subjected to interrogation, he must first be informed in clear and unequivocal terms that he has the right to remain silent-the warning of the right to remain silent must be accompanied by the explanation that anything said can and will be used against the individual in court...