Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that 1,000 fires had been set, 300 of them major. At least 200 stores had been burned to the ground; along one four-block stretch not a shop remained standing. From his Texas ranch, the President branded the disorders "tragic and shocking." Said Lyndon Johnson: "I urge every person in a position of leadership to make every effort to restore order in Los Angeles." As Pat Brown hurried home, Johnson dispatched LeRoy Collins, former director of the Federal Government's Community Relations Service, and White House Assistant Lee White to confer with the Governor...
...college, continue your knowledge To be a person, smart, brave, and true; For if they can make penicillin out of moldy cheese, They surely can make something out of you. This bit of verse was written by Arnie Gant, a 15-year-old Negro who lives in a public-housing project in The Bronx and is one of the thousands of kids whom it has become fashionable for the ex perts to call "culturally deprived." But even while resenting that tag, Arnie sees some humor in everybody's eagerness to "save" him. He wrote his wry lines for fellow...
...GENERAL COURTS-MARTIAL have jurisdiction over any person subject to the code, try all serious offenses ranging from murder to desertion. The court has at least five members, plus three lawyers trained as members of the particular service's Judge Advocate General's Corps. They are: the trial counsel, defense counsel and "law officer" (judge), who rules on all questions of law, but does not participate in the final secret vote for guilt or innocence. A general court can impose any statutory sentence, including dishonorable discharge, life imprisonment and death (by unanimous vote...
...muse is evident; yet in these pages the poet attempts to draft a new lease on creative life. Auden in his previous poetry has systematically sublimated private feeling into public statement; in this volume, with wavering will and sometimes with quavering hand, he ventures to describe the private person who hides behind the public performer...
Batter my heart, three-person'd God. "Trinity," Oppenheimer said, "we'll call it Trinity...