Word: pools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begun on the Washington side of the river. Tens of thousands of people clung to the sides of the Reflecting Pool, which stretches between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. They overflowed beyond the big shade trees and sat on the banks on the Constitution Avenue side. David Dellinger, chairman of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, was standing in front of a rostrum across the street from the scolding stare of Abraham Lincoln. Dellinger was saying, "Our-voices will be heard and our bodies will be heeded...
...speeches droned on for two hours, as Phil Ochs and Peter, Paul and Mary (remember?) soured a few songs, as the crowd became more and more restless, a strange thing happened. It was becoming evident that here around the Reflecting Pool people were celebrating the last sacrament of an irrelevant form of protest. The crowd was itching to get going, to bury the numbers game once and for all, to do something hard and steely and significant this time...
Because he believes one great man makes the difference, Lee blames the Eisenhower administration for America's present dilemma, because Eisenhower "permitted Diem to systematically eliminate all alternatives to him." South Vietnam no longer had a pool of talent from which a hero-ruler might emerge. "You can't go talent-scouting for leaders like in a telephone directory," Lee points out; "the British didn't create...
Wallach is good; Miss Jackson is good; Bob Dishy is especially good as Miss Jackson's car-pool husband. Director Arthur Hiller uses his camera with some originality, yet keeps it fairly unobtrusive. The film has some originality yet is fairly unobtrusive. --GLENN A. PADNICK
...said, adding that he had switched resources from defense to social services-"the right priority for a socialist government." Outlays for education, health and social security had increased by 45% under his stewardship. Unemployment? He hardly deigned to use the word. "We reject the creation of a permanent pool, as they say, of unemployment. Our whole policy is to secure full employment and to secure it on a permanent basis...