Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your article "The Fair Ladies" is up the pole. It is not so much that the English women have undergone a transformation but rather the men have finally woken up! Female appreciation has long been the exclusive pursuit of our continental cousins, but at last, and thank God, we too can savor the delight, without feeling guilty...
...refers to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty as "Ike's right foot." But Sahl is no court jester to the Democrats; he often wounds Democrats and often amuses many Republicans (among them: Herb Brownell); he picks off any and all targets in what Kennedy last week called "his relentless pursuit of everybody." The Heavy Steel. As a topical satirist, Sahl has relatively few U.S. models to draw on. Stunted by frequent periods of political apathy on the one hand and by a chronic, expanding-frontier optimism on the other, political satire has never particularly thrived in the U.S., with some...
Miller's yarn, first published as a highly effective short story, follows three Western drifters in their pursuit of wild horses as they force the mustangs out of mountain passes by terrifying them with a low-swooping airplane, eventually trap them for sale as dog meat. Two of the "mustangers" refer to a vaguely mutual mistress named Roslyn. In the movie version, Roslyn has moved to the center and become, by the author's admission, a closely personal portrait of his wife...
That guy was belatedly running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Just when Jack Kennedy had settled back to polish his nomination-acceptance speech for delivery at Los Angeles, Lyndon Baines Johnson had saddled up and set off in an old-style pursuit of the rolling Kennedy bandwagon...
Since crushing the Tibetan rebellion last year, the committee reported, the Red Chinese have made their chief goal an effort to separate the Tibetan people from their Buddhist religion. In pursuit of this policy, the Chinese have ruthlessly "killed religious figures, because their religious belief and practice was an encouragement and example to others. They also have forcibly transferred large numbers of Tibetan children to a Chinese materialist environment in order to prevent them from having a religious upbringing." The Dalai Lama told the commissioners that his information showed that more than 10,000 Tibetan children, some as young...