Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because many beautiful?and rich ?people are for Lindsay, he will be able to outspend both of his rivals. That is one reason why the mayor may well win re-election after all. Much of the money is expected to go into a TV blitz in the campaign's last...
Treigle is an intensely religious man. "I was raised as a Baptist," he says, "but my religion really is the Bible." He takes a moralistic view of his evil doings in opera: "What better sermon could there be than the destruction of Satan?" His wife approves for another reason. "He's so kind and gentle at home. That's probably because he gets all the meanness out of his system on the stage...
...that passage, James Baldwin gives one reason why he came to hate and fear white people. He looked at their art as into a mirror, and could not see himself there at all. In the "disastrously explicit medium of language" that he uses so well, Baldwin adds a yet icier thought: "This did not mean that I loved black people; on the contrary, I despised them, possibly because they failed to produce Rembrandt...
...Cain? Where was the Garden of Eden? What is the patience of Job? Many teen-agers cannot answer such questions-and for a good reason: since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 outlawed devotional Bible reading in public schools, few U.S. school systems have offered Biblical studies of any kind. Justice Tom C. Clark's majority opinion in the Supreme Court decision made a point of recommending that the Bible should still be studied for its "literary and historic qualities," but that option is rarely exercised. Some diehard school districts in a few states still defy the court...
...push to build the SST now emanates from the sheer momentum of technology. After the SST will come the hypersonic transport, with speeds of 5,000 m.p.h., and then suborbital flight. Each step will eventually be taken for the same reason that man climbed Mount Everest: it was there, waiting to be conquered. The still unresolved questions, which Congress must answer, are whether technology must move at a forced-march pace, and whether the boom of supersonic flight in the 1970s is worth the proposed investment of national talent and treasure...