Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then there was Viet Nam. "To day," he said, "the pressure of events is remorselessly leading toward a major war, while efforts to reverse that trend are lagging disastrously behind. In my view, the tragic error is being repeated of relying on force and military means in a deceptive pursuit of peace...
...college next year, all sophomores and freshmen a year later. Kansas Sociologist E. Jackson Baur hopes it will help K.U. students to avoid falling into the type he sees at most universities: "A collection of com peting strangers who are incapable of collaborating with one another in a pleasurable pursuit of scholarship...
...resemblance to Roberts. "Why do I have to look like him?" complained Hancock. "Why can't I look like Mario Lanza?" At Sadler's Wells Theater, Tenor Emile Belcourt was singing the title role of Offenbach's Bluebeard when police broke in with growling dogs in pursuit...
Religion, by one Webster definition, is the object of a pursuit arousing "religious convictions and feelings such as great faith, devotion, or fervor," and science, by another Webster definition, is "accumulated and accepted knowledge which has been systematized." The two come together in the field of the UFO, where writers on the subject certainly show great faith, devotion and fervor in their efforts to have the objects regarded as part of accepted and accumulated knowledge...
Skinny Years. The pursuit of perfection began at the age of five when Heston played his first role in the one-room schoolhouse he attended in northern Michigan. At Northwestern University, he worked with Classmates Patricia Neal and Ralph Meeker, met another hopeful actress, Lydia Clarke, who has been his wife for 22 years. After some skinny years in Manhattan, he got a supporting role in Katharine Cornell's Antony and Cleopatra ("Miss Cornell is a tall woman and likes to have tall actors around"). From there, it was roles in TV and a lead in his first film...