Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas Merton, who died just before the end of this strange year: "What is the good of exalting the 'greatness of man' simply because the concerted efforts of technicians, soldiers and politicians manage to put a man on the moon while four-fifths of the human race remains in abject misery, not properly clothed or fed, in lives subject to arbitrary and senseless manipulations by politicians or violence at the hands of police, hoodlums or revolutionaries? Certainly the possibilities and the inherent nobility of man are stupendous, but it is small help to crow about it when...
...coach, will be a special consultant on reducing the number of proliferating presidential commissions. A TV sports commentator, Wilkinson moderated a number of Nixon's local TV question-and-answer programs during the campaign. Wilkinson's one venture into elective politics was Oklahoma's 1964 Senate race; he lost in an upset to Fred Harris, who will take over as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...that immigrants have made Britons "feel like strangers in their own country" and spoke of a vision of Britain "foaming with much blood." It was the first time that Powell-or any other politician in recent British history-had made such a major issue of the delicate question of race. The results horrified moderates. Rank-and-file workingmen, normally Labor Party stalwarts, downed tools to demonstrate their support for Tory Powell. Nearly 100,000 letters poured into his office, the vast majority in hearty agreement with his speech. Political leaders of both parties quickly declared Powell to be irresponsible...
Powell disavows the label of racist, or racialist as some Britons say. "What I would take 'racialist' to mean is a person who believes in the inherent inferiority of one race of mankind to another, and who acts and speaks in that belief," he explains. "So the answer to the question of whether I am a racialist is no." Moreover, he scoffs at the claims of his critics that his volatile choice of words encourages racist reactions in his listeners. Instead, he argues, "I am a safety valve." Powell has even conceded that immigrants are "no more malevolent...
...less prophetically gifted politician might have failed to exploit the race problem in a country that prides itself on its tolerance of eccentricity and sense of fair play. The Sunday Observer, for example, has commented on "the fanaticism, the patience, the nationalism, the extremeness, the realism and the romanticism" that he exhibits by turns. Powell is a 56-year-old M.P. from a district in the sooty Midlands city of Wolverhampton, which he has represented since 1950; he is also a former professor of Greek at Australia's Sydney University, at age 27 was the author of four scholarly...