Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents in poverty. Better medical care for poor children and early educational programs like Head Start, followed through with continuing vocational training, cultural enrichment, and ultimate employment, would grant a meaningful role in the mainstream of American life to all citizens. Such an attack would in the long run prove a sound investment, in lives as well as dollars, for a society with both the conscience and creative resources to hold out for all its people the actuality of the American dream...
...neglect and alleviate a major economic crisis. Although Brewer earlier supported Wallace, he is no sycophant. A conservative segregationist, Brewer shuns public talk of racism and has no stomach for Wallace's stem-winding battles with Washington. As his own man, Brewer enjoys statewide renown, could prove a formidable opponent to Wallace if, as expected, they square off in 1970 for the governorship...
...there is still work to be done here in translating the sentiment for an Afro-American studies into a workable program. The mechanics of setting up a degree committee should not prove difficult; the CEP earlier this year discussed a proposal by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, to establish such committees for any student with a legitimate plan for concentration which fell outside the range of normal Harvard fields...
...away while still close to home, it is also necessary to come to terms with the special Mexican ambiente. The mañana era may be over, but it has been succeeded by hay tiempo ("there's time"). Some hotels have clocks with no hands, apparently to prove that time does not count. Sometimes hay tiempo also means late planes, canceled tours and misplaced hotel reservations. "We're trying as hard as we can to be more efficient," says one tour official, "but the tourist must forgive. Relax, maybe something nice will happen...
Anyone following preparations for White Sale expected several things. The show could be depended upon to prove moving, disturbing, and funny, to weld gaiety to bitterness as easily as it moved from song to spoken word. The reputations and records of Mr. Mayer, his cast and his collaborators, put White Sale under a real obligation. As it turned out, White Sale met this obligation payed it off with interest, and moved on to do what theater seldom anywhere accomplishes, to deliver on its promises as well as its commitments. Particularly, White Sale delivered on the promise of its suggestive subtitle...