Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like to fit multiple-target nuclear warheads to their Polaris missiles, as the U.S. has already done with some of its intercontinental missiles. Since the U.S. is increasingly sensitive to French charges of favoring Britain with nuclear know-how that it denies to others, the British regard the warhead question as a key indicator of how freely Nixon will continue military cooperation...
...admire the bull for his courage, but he'll still end up splattered all over the track." Strange words indeed from a man who used to make his living with his fists-but Ali, undefeated but defrocked heavyweight champion, was not pulling any punches on the race question. On the contrary. "By nature, blacks and whites are enemies," he insisted, urging separatism within America. "We want land. We want factories. We want stores. We must control our own destiny...
...Guard Howard Komives to the Detroit Pistons for Forward Dave DeBusschere. At the time, the Knicks were fifth in the Eastern Division with an 18-17 record. Many of the team's troubles revolved around Bellamy, who slouched in the keyhole like a huge, 6-ft. 11 -in. question mark, playing won derfully one night and indifferently the next. DeBusschere's arrival allowed gan gly Willis Reed to move from the cor ner to his old position at center, where he has performed inspiringly every night since, scoring at a rate of 25 points a game. With that...
...students could not write. In addition, his marriage to an older divorcee collapsed after four years. Philip went to New York after the publication of Letting Go, a troubled novel that interweaves threads from his Chicago adventure, his marriage and his grim life as a graduate student. The central question of the novel presages the issue that confronts Portnoy, only in reverse: Can one really let go of the self, renounce personal gratification for the sake of others? In Manhattan, Roth plunged into psychoanalysis, wrote a play that never got past the workshop stage, often retired to the writers...
Where he goes from here is an intriguing question, and could prove a serious dilemma for him. There is quite a difference between letting go and catching on, and with Portnoy's Complaint, Roth has caught on, but good. He has said that he will write about catching...