Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nomination next month; yet rank-and-file reaction to his candidacy, never notably enthusiastic, has been increasingly indifferent of late, if not outright hostile. For weeks, despite his self-imposed obligation to defend the Johnson Administration and its policies, the Vice President has sought assiduously to outline the prospect of an independent, innovative Humphrey regime. To date, however, the exuberant Minnesotan has had to take consolation from delegate arithmetic rather than the roar of the crowd...
Such a system-which has been seriously proposed for more than fifty years-may yet become a reality in the 1970s, although the prospect seems remote at present. One major problem: the anachronistic and potentially mischievous Electoral College should be abolished before the U.S. seriously contemplates instituting a national primary. Otherwise, the nation would have a popular primary without a purely popular general election...
Laws to register and license firearms seemed within reach during the days of shock that followed Robert Kennedy's assassination. That prospect is now dimming with each passing...
Episcopal Minister Malcolm Boyd of Washington, D.C., observes: "It's a whole new dimension to some people. A girl who knows a white man can get to know him very well-and it gets boring. She finds the prospect of a Negro man exciting." There is no denying that for many girls, interracial dating is a very stimulating prospect. "I just think brown skin looks healthier," insists one California student. "Negro boys are carried away with pretty white faces and long flashy hair," snaps an admittedly jealous black high school girl in Washington, D.C. On some campuses with...
...possible exception of John Kenneth Galbraith, most American critics embarked on a similar analysis of the U.S. would be likely to castigate their own culture in the stern and relentless manner of modern Cotton Mathers. But the French manage to be amusing, or at least elegant, even about the prospect of doom. Nourissier's book is charming and witty, his chief weapon being irony. If the irony at times seems to overwhelm the reader, that too is part of his message: the French are so full of contradictions that he can only explain their affection for "this huge, embarrassing...