Word: proving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reinhold Niebuhr, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Britain's nonagenarian nonbeliever, Bertrand Russell. Sobell, however, betrays scant enthusiasm today for continued legal battling to clear his name. In any case, after the verdict of his 1951 trial and more than a dozen later appeals, it would doubtless prove a fruitless enterprise...
...rhythms: learning slowly the faces of his children, observing the seasons, the habits and kindnesses of one wife at a time. But now, unable to go to school in nature, he must rapidly learn and unlearn technical ways that his father did not know and that may prove useless to his children. Religion fell away, while faith in industrial progress became a form of religion-now itself eroded by creeping pessimism. Less than ever before is Western man sure of his own nature, except that he is so adaptable. That quality is all that saves him from the pathological anxiety...
...environment. Day by day, Americans are destroying the landscape and poisoning the air they breathe and the water they drink. The Johnson Administration was partly successful in stopping the trend; the Nixon Administration should do far more. It should vigorously enforce and fully fund existing antipollution laws. If they prove insufficient, it ought to ask Congress for even tougher measures. It must also act swiftly to preserve scenic areas, waterfronts and unspoiled islands. Fortunately, the country still has many deserving areas. It might also help local governments fund more parks near cities, and if they still cannot afford the land...
...West Germany, the conscientious objector (or Kriegsdienstverweigerer) need not prove dogmatic pacifism; he must merely convince a local commission of civil servants that he is against the use of force between states. Some 70 chapters of the German War Resisters' League seek to foster that attitude. Aided by leftist student militants, the chapters have held thousands of parades in the last 14 months, lectured to schoolchildren and demonstrated at military shows...
Nixon was in Wisconsin too. He was running against no one, Rockefeller having dropped out a week previously; the point of Nixon's campaign in the state was to prove that Republicans liked him enough to vote for him even when it didn't make any difference. If Dick could come out of Wisconsin in good shape, said the Nixon people, the way would be pretty well clear to Miami Beach, and so they were spending half a million dollars to get the vote out, and bringing in Mr. Nixon himself for two swings through the state...