Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most people who seek help from the Draft Resistance Group are not interested in trying to prove they are conscientious objectors to war. The few who want to try for C.O. are referred to the Americans Friends Service Committee in Harvard Square, which has a staff more experienced in the intricacies of the C.O. procedures...
...means out of the running yet. Of Romney, Oregon's McCall declared: "Somebody just has to crank him up again." Having taken the lead too early, he has deliberately slowed the pace of his presidential campaign. But his supporters are convinced that once he begins campaigning, he will prove, as he has three times in Michigan, that he is a tireless, dynamic and nigh unbeatable stumper...
...apolitical. Malabre is a typical declasse, a man who loathes his fellow bourgeois but cannot fit himself into the proletariat. The revolution goes on without his help or hindrance, though he makes frequent but feeble efforts to write stories in the accepted style of "socialist realism." He seems to prove that though political systems come and go, the alienated man-or worm-never changes...
...which relies on negotiation is a policy that is at least partly at the mercy of others. We must also have a course of action which is within the scope of our own authority. We must invite negotiations. We must have a better policy than mindless escalation should negotiations prove not to be possible...
...reason for all this unconventional behavior is that Arden is not making points, but people. He has nothing to prove and nothing to sell, and therefore he doesn't have to manipulate his characters into demonstrating a proof or making a sale. They are there in the stark altogether in order to make us laugh, and we laugh because they are disgusting and hypocritical, not because they are airing the writer's gags. And when any playwright gives his characters as much free reign as Arden does, he is bound to overwrite, as Arden most certainly does...