Word: profession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publishers profess to be perplexed about whether this is 85-year-old Author Wodehouse's 70th or 80th or maybe even 90th book. No use trying to count, they say, because in Wodehouse's puzzling world, as in Einstein's, one and one don't always add up to two. Quite true. Old Wodehouse-masters know it is equally fruitless to try to unravel the plot in one of his potty idyls. In this book, he sets out to tell the tale of a cuckoo American millionaire's efforts to steal an 18th century paperweight...
...right," he said. "Certainly sponsoring does not mean endorsing." He also blasted the YD's for being so reluctant about the whole thing. "I regret aspects of the Harvard community that don't give an open mind to exposing a point of view. It seems the ones who profess to be the most libertarian are not when it comes to matters that affect them directly," he said...
Endangered Majority. Publicly, the Gaullists profess to be unworried about the outcome. Privately, however, they concede that their majority is in danger. If the latest public opinion polls are any guide, France's next Assembly may be split fairly evenly between Gaullist and leftist Deputies, with the Center Catholics of Lecanuet holding the balance of power. Such an alignment would almost certainly wreck whatever chances Pompidou has of eventually taking over from De Gaulle. But it could also force De Gaulle to soften his anti-U.S. stand in the interest of a working agreement with the Center...
...Israel and hostility toward the Arabs. New York's Mayor John Lindsay discovered this last June when Jewish objections impelled him to cancel a proposed luncheon in honor of Saudi Arabia's visiting King Feisal. But many such protests are carried on by professional ethnic champions who profess to speak for their people but are far from solidly supported. The press too perpetuates a great many ethnic cliches...
...legal means. The only alternative that they can rightfully take is to maintain a status quo -- continue their referendums, meetings, and pamphlets; and hope their theories begin to influence a larger number of people. Until this happens, their hands are literally tied by the rules of the democracy they profess to maintain...