Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mason Dixon Harris's Dawn on Land and Sea displays the control and vividness which has marked his recent work; Mr. David Landon plays with quickly changing metaphors; Mr. John Berendt parodies Vachel Lindsay, with particularly ironic intent; Mr. Arthur Levin parodies Mr. Alexander Pope, who tends to resist parody pretty well...
...Robert Young. While Young killed himself two years ago, Kirby had no choice but to take over the management of Alleghany, soon showed that the days of Young's financial derring-do were out. Explains Kirby: "Young had such a restless disposition that he could such not a resist the fatal mistake of jumping in and out of good investments before they even came close to meeting their potential...
Every major power bloc has reason to resist reform. Any move toward a popular vote would shear the power of small states. Under either a popular or proportional system, big-city ethnic minorities and labor unions would lose their power to swing entire states. Deep-South Democrats and Farm-Belt Republicans could no longer deliver unbroken chunks of electoral votes-and their power in party councils would diminish...
...good, Hulme would not have exercised such a magnetic pull over friend and foe if his life had not been as unconventional as his mind. He rarely rose before noon, loved nothing better than to read Kant stretched out in a hot tub, and could not resist marching in Salvation Army parades. He argued that woman's place was in the home, but he was forever picking one up on the streets, and one memorably uncomfortable escapade took place on the steel staircase of the emergency exit at the Picadilly Circus tube station...
...conference at Princeton hinted at the difficulties involved in a "Peace Corps" operation, even in defining its goal: Is its purpose to resist the advance of communist influence? To raise U.S. prestige? To "struggle for peace?" To make friends, "people-to-people?" To fight the "triple curse" of poverty, illiteracy, and disease? To work toward political stability? To inculcate ideas of freedom? To give U.S. youth a chance to serve? To educate them about foreign problems? To launch, as one speaker at the conference suggested, a "cultural Marshall plan...