Word: plea
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...book did more than add a colorful catch phrase to the language. With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector?housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare?it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great Society. Galbraith offered the best summation of its philosophy when he testified against tax reduction before a congressional committee in 1965. "I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend," he said, "if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted...
...offensive, Lyndon Johnson's low-key performance was a cool effort to mask one of the most trying weeks of a crisis-ridden presidency. Amid all the tumult around him, Johnson still found time to chat amiably with West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütze, make yet another plea for a 10% income tax surcharge, and present the Heart of the Year Award to Actress Patricia Neal, who suffered three near-fatal strokes three years...
John Wesley Harding is a satisfying album--mainly for Dylan's sake, because many of the songs are implicitly personal renunciations of the "narcotic of a subtle skepticism" that Pope Paul advised against in his Christmas plea for "Peace of Heart" in all men. Perhaps Dylan has found "Peace of Heart." And his record gives some hope to its listeners, a little strength of mind to face a grisly political milieu that threatens to overwhelm us. Cold comfort...
...after four summers of holocausts in the nation's largest cities, concern over the Negro's welfare has been largely replaced by consternation at the prospect of anarchy. Nothing more dramatically underscored this shift than the total silence that greeted Johnson's State of the Union plea for several "vital" civil rights laws covering fair jury trials, enforcement of equal-employment opportunity and open housing. By contrast, he was applauded a dozen times when he spoke of curbing crime...
Arraigned in the East Cambridge District Court last Saturday, Foote entered a plea of "not guilty." His case will be heard again on February...