Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agnew after the convention. "You can look him in the eye and know he's got it. This guy has got it." What Agnew has got is a reflexive feel for how millions of fellow Americans view the world?many of them through suburban windows. It is another question whether he also has the qualities of leadership, intellect and judgment that are required, in an age of instant communications and thermonuclear weaponry, of a man who might some day be thrust into the presidency of the U.S. Agnew has certainly made some errors of judgment in the campaign...
...about the Associate Justice were brought out almost every day. More doubts were raised by a disclosure last week that Fortas had accepted $15,000 for 18 hours of summer-school teaching at American University's law school. Though some other Justices accept fees, there is an ethical question about whether they should. What aggravates the question of Fortas' particularly generous fee is that it was donated by five big businessmen who some day may well have matters of interest come before the court...
...Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, the invasion of Hungary and the unseemly quarrel with Communist China-but the Soviets have up to now managed to maintain their ideological primacy. Now, after three weeks of continuing protest among Communists abroad over the invasion of Czechoslovakia, there is a serious question about how long Russia can exert that primacy over the minds of the world's many millions of Moscow-oriented Communists...
...most baffling question of all about the ground war is raised by the Communists' much-heralded "third offensive" against Saigon. Anticipated as a follow-up on the February Tet offensive and the second-round attack against the capital in May, it has been thought imminent since mid-August. Yet there is still no clear sign that it is coming; in fact, the pressure is off Saigon and the other major cities. Saigon has not been shelled in three weeks...
Losing Relevance. Of course, some of it was biased. Since there was no question that the police were singling out reporters and photographers for rough treatment, it was hardly surprising that some of them felt more sympathy for the attacked than the attackers. And, in a way, Daley was right about the presence of TV cameras having an effect on what happened. As New York Magazine Writer Sophy Burnham pointed out last week, the presence of TV cameras and lights changes the mood and attitude of people before them, much as "a girl undressing is quite aware...