Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly complimented," said Romney, "but my attention is focused on 1966." To be sure, Romney announced later in the week that he would seek a new four-year term as Governor of Michigan-but without the hallowed promise to serve out his term without drifting off in pursuit of better things. Javits also made news later in the week, though for a different reason. Ever the politician, he accepted an accolade as "1966 Father of the Year,"* posed for pictures as Actress Eva Gabor pinned a ribbon betokening the award on his lapel...
...President Robert Francis Goheen argues that because draft calls are still relatively small, the system is "unnecessarily erratic in what it does to young men's lives. Great inequities occur which are not compensated for by any real social gain. We have enough educated manpower that just the pursuit of a Ph.D. in history, classics or chemistry, for example, is not important enough to justify deferment...
...bounced and jiggled upstairs and down, through houses and haylofts, while Richard, decked out in scruffy beard and scruffier clothes, followed in hot pursuit. At length he caught up with her in a pile of wheat, whereupon the two engaged in some biting and cussing and all-round good fellowship...
Bangkok bustles with evidences of the pursuit of sanouk, or pleasure, the mainspring of Thai life. Busy asphalt boulevards are supplanting the ancient, lettuce-clogged klongs-the canals where Thais still fish, drink, bathe and eat the lettuce. Venerable Siamese villas with cupolas like bowler hats squat cheek by jowl with neon-lit bars, cinemas and boxing pits. The jet age has made Bangkok the air hub of southern Asia, the halfway house for round-the-world trippers from the U.S. It is also rest and recreation for a carefully regulated 500 G.I.s at a time, on leave from Viet...
...hadn't. Salesman was never meant to be a documentary, and its X-ray examination of a man who is going under has kept it from becoming a period piece. Willy Loman, the salesman whose soul is as worn as his heels from his mindless pursuit of the American dream, is as pathetic today as he was 17 years ago. As his faithlessness to his wife and himself backfires and eventually destroys him, the play takes on the proportions of Greek drama, and Miller's point drives itself home: the common man can suffer a king-size tragedy...