Word: quits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were all for the war then, except Bruce, who was on the executive committee of SDS, then quit at the end of the year with no explanation (this was to be the first of many events with no explanation, a situation I managed to adjust to). Bruce argued against the war with many people. By the next year we were all against the war, and I suppose that now, three years later, we are still against...
...They voted me out of her league and I'm sorry. I'm embarrassed."His boyishly defiant recovery retains a quality of quiet longing: "So I'm a gonna join the cowboys and shoot me some outlaws (it's something to do since I'm out here anyway) but quit it all, give it all up, if the little girl could...
...Wolfson Family Foundation ?the contract was not for life, for one thing, and Douglas' duties were spelled out precisely?the connection was still questionable and invited the accusation of poor judgment at least. The foundation until recently had derived income from Las Vegas gambling operations. Even after Douglas quit the organization, the American Bar Association said it would ask its ethics committee to consider whether Douglas had violated A.B.A. canons...
...Youngstown steelworker, Humphrey followed his father into the mills, then quit to study art at Youngstown University and in Paris before coming to New York. A cheery sort, who refuses to wear a beard because it is "too establishment among artists," he began with representational painting. Then, he explains, "I got to a point where objects didn't mean anything any more." Humphrey's canvases of 1964 and 1965 were cold-gray with narrow colored borders. Slowly softer and more vibrant colors began to glow in his works. Humphrey says that the added warmth of his latest pictures...
...beautiful enough to suggest that the sleepy poet may have decided to quit while he was ahead...