Word: provenance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents of young drug addicts, suspected or proven, won't profit much from your call for "franker conversation" [Aug. 30]. Have you ever tried to talk to a rebellious teenager? What parents must ask themselves is: "What is missing from my life, that I must use drugs-nicotine or alcohol-myself?" The same ingredients will be missing from the child's life, and he will have every reason to agree with the unspoken message of the parent's example: Life is not worth living without drugs. Parents could ask: Do we love enough...
...Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon, the U.S. has two presidential candidates of proven competence, extraordinary experience in affairs of state and irreproachable private lives. Though neither has the particular panache or grace that commends one to a style-conscious age, each is nonetheless a man of some substance who, at least on paper, seems well qualified for the nation's highest office. Yet both have lurched off on their campaigns with so uncertain and uninspiring a beginning that the electorate may justly wonder whether either can bring any illumination or imagination to the serious problems that face the nation...
...Goodell's savvy in urban affairs, strong pro-civil rights stand and proven vote-getting appeal attracted Governor Nelson Rockefeller's eye. When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, Goodell figured immediately as a top candidate to fill the unexpired two years of Kennedy's Senate term. Rocky offered the job first to John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who declined because he feels committed to continue as chief of the Urban Coalition. New York City Mayor John Lindsay could have had the Senate appointment for the asking, but refused to go hat in hand...
...there was never any argument in the Kremlin over the necessity of bringing the Czechoslovaks to heel, only a dispute about how best to do it. The precedent of Hungary in 1956 provided a proven way, but one that carried opprobrium. Nonetheless, the Soviets took it, well aware that the world was certain to cry shame, and in the full knowledge that it would destroy any chance of the conference of Communist parties scheduled for this winter. In that conference, Moscow had hoped to demonstrate once and for all to Peking its leadership of world Communism...
...Fritz Lang's Fury, twenty-two members of a lynch mob on trial for their lives, presumably cleared by the perjured testimony of their neighbors, are proven guilty by the camera. A newsreel filmed during the height of the mob violence containing the indelible record of their faces is presented in court. The scene is cathartic, as Lang presents the camera per se as an instrument of fate, the omniscient agent of grim truths. It is even more cathartic in its simplicity, for the concept of film-as-evidence recalls the very motives for the genesis of the medium, that...