Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unprecedented joint public statement. After consulting Crossley, they issued a complicated collective verdict. If their three polls were "plotted out sequentially, as though they were conducted by a single organization, using the same sampling techniques and the same question-asking techniques," they concluded, then 1) a Nixon-Humphrey race would be extremely close, "with Wallace perhaps holding the balance"; 2) "Rockefeller has now moved to an open lead over his possible Democratic opponents, Humphrey and McCarthy"; and 3) "the McCarthy vote has shown and continues to show the greatest amount of volatility among the four leading candidates...
...worthy of much support. Although not a Jew himself, Hahn was no friend of the regime. Throughout World War II, he was left undisturbed at his work, exploring radioactive isotopes. In the U.S., where scientists assumed that the Germans were following up his atom-splitting success, the race was on to achieve fission on a more Promethean scale. In 1945, after Germany's defeat, the results were displayed at Hiroshima...
...Cioran, life is at once absurd and fascinating. "Everything that a man does turns against him," he explains. "You will be punished for everything. That is the tragedy of human destiny." Mocked by life, mankind becomes "a race of convulsionaries at the center of a cosmic farce." Since philosophical systems inevitably fail, Cioran is led to denounce reason as "the rust of our vitality" and the study of history as "the terror of chronology," both of which lead men to separate consciousness from reality. To Cioran, all truth is ultimately hoax, all certainties no more than "functioning lies...
...Industrialist Lloyd Miller laid out that sum for a thoroughbred filly at the 1966 yearling auctions in Keeneland, Ky. The youngster's sire, Persian Road II, was so poorly regarded as a stallion that he later sold for only $6,000. Her dam, Home by Dark, had never raced and was stone-deaf to boot. The filly herself was more the size of a Shetland pony than a race horse and the only thing remarkable about her was her temper...
Even at Harvard, then race relations are, rather graceless. To improve the situation, whites must start talking to blacks, and not about the black man, but about the white...