Word: quiescent
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Comparatively quiescent through the winter and chilly spring, critics are once more raising their cry in the capital for an end to the war in Viet Nam. The summer's rioting has only intensified the malaise of the congressional minority, which has grown increasingly despondent over the war's continuing cost in U.S. dollars and lives when so much remains to be done at home. Even Congressmen who think the war is necessary and honorable have started wondering if the objective is worth the price (some $70 million per day, 12,269 U.S. dead...
...reviewer of The Wobblies [July 7] took me through iambic, pentameter, didactic, hortatory, diffident, progenitor, detestation, existentialism, scintilla, quixotic, schematic, protagonist, bourgeois, onomatopoetically, proletariat, crux, status quo, ante, minimal, prosody, recalcitrant, quiescent, ideologically, ascendancy, coalesce, dactyl and elegiac. But what, pray, is a bindle stiff? Is it possible that your man owns all these words as an integral part of his vocabulary...
From Jackson Lake, at least, Nixon's campaign appeared equally quiescent. As New Mexico's moderate Governor David Cargo put it: "Reagan's rapidly replacing Dick Nixon in one wing of the party." The Californian's growing popularity was glaringly evident earlier in the week, when 13 Western Governors-eleven of them Republicans-met in the village of West Yellowstone, Mont., just across the Wyoming border from Old Faithful. Fresh from an enthusiastic reception from the conservative Young Republicans in Omaha, Reagan breezed into the Yellowstone meeting "like a man on a white charger," as McCall...
...Senate, the long-quiescent Democratic doves mounted a joint attack against Westmoreland and the Administration's recent moves aimed at hitting the North harder. "The new level of escalation marked by our bombing of the North Vietnamese airfields has brought us one step closer to World War III involving the limitless legions of China backed by the enormous firepower of Soviet Russia," declared South Dakota's George McGovern. "I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which sooner or later will envelop my son and American youth...
...recurrent theme is how students, who really have no formal power, can obtain and exercise power. "Student power" can bring pressure on a university certainly, on a society possibly. It requires no reliance on a reluctant faculty, a quiescent labor movement, a non-existent peasant class. It also requires no fixed ideology. Ideologies divide as well as unite. They divided students in the 1930's. But, after McCarthy in the United States and polycentrism in the Communist world, the line between the moderates and the liberals versus the radicals is no longer so sharply drawn or drawn at all. "Student...