Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against a tide of reform, but the party did stage a convention that was more open and more deliberative than any in memory. The passionless play put on by the Republicans in Miami Beach, by comparison, was a mere ratification process. Admittedly, the presidential nomination was never in serious question last week. But the party did engage in a candid, spirited debate on the Viet Nam question, and 40% of the votes went for the relatively soft plank recommended by a minority of the Platform Committee: even some pro-Humphrey delegates voted against the Administration on this issue...
...ambivalence, his addiction to hyperbole, his fidelity to the power blocs of the old politics (big labor, Southern Democrats, the surviving bosses and the elderly). He also became vulnerable to the kind of accusation emblazoned on a placard in Chicago last week: "There are two sides to every question; Humphrey endorses both...
...year invited Clurman to direct it in another O'Neill play. Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder and Arthur Miller have been successfully performed in Japan. But O'Neill especially, says Translator Koji Numazawa, "is haunting to us Japanese, with his tortuous groping for an answer to the overwhelming question of God's existence." Wiggy Look. Clurman expected formidable difficulties: his Japanese vocabulary consists of only ten words. But communication was a comparative cinch. First, he had to pry his cast loose from the stylized posturing of the kabuki influence. "The actors would play for the audience instead...
...current issue of Applied Optics, Entomologist Philip Callahan, of the Department of Agriculture, reports on delicate experiments with which he answered the question. Callahan caught some giant cecropia moths, which live in the woods, studied them under a binocular microscope and decided that it was tiny spikes at the base of their delicate, fernlike antennae that reacted to strong light. To check his theory, he blacked out the moths' eyes, painted each antenna black, except for the tips of the spikes, and ran minuscule wires into the main antennal nerves. Then he began subjecting them to light of varying...
After Eisenhower's first heart attack in 1955, the question arose whether he should have surgery. The answer was no, because no surgical treatment of heart disease was considered both safe and effective. That is still true...