Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were indeed any lights along the way back to the cottage, he says, he never saw them. He understands the damage that he has inflicted upon his family and himself. He also ponders these days whether his future usefulness may not have to lie somewhere outside of public life...
...weeks to more than usual ups and downs. After his three-day sail last week, his intention to remain in the Senate and seek re-election in 1970 seemed buoyed anew. Though he retained serious doubts about his future effectiveness, he seemed convinced for the moment that to quit public life would simply be "letting them" drive him out. Still, nearly all his friends -among them the scholarly subalterns of the New Frontier-are worried about...
...withdrawing from the family legend they had served so long. Theodore Sorensen, who supervised the drafting of Kennedy's televised explanation of Chappaquiddick, said on a television talk show last week: "I don't think that that, [his conduct] being so recent in the minds of the public, and that being so clear an indication of his action under pressure, he should try for the presidency in 1972." Privately, some of Kennedy's friends are baffled, and doubting even their own defense of him. A few do not rule out the possibility that he will leave politics...
...anniversary itself began calmly. In peaceful protest, all but a few Czechoslovaks refused to ride the public transport, and boycotted shops and restaurants. In Prague, more than 300 bouquets were piled on the grave of Jan Palach, the 21-year-old student who last January burned himself to death in a protest against the continued Soviet occupation. At noon, to the cacophony of auto horns and factory whistles, traffic braked to a halt and many of the 50,000 people who jammed Wenceslas Square raised their fingers in the victory sign. In a show of defiance, Czechoslovakia stood still...
...popular movements that affect the minds and values of a generation or more, not all of which can be neatly tied to a time and place. Looking back upon the America of the '60s, future historians may well search for the meaning of one such movement. It drew the public's notice on the days and nights of Aug. 15 through 17, 1969, on the 600-acre farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel...