Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charmingly unconventional style, proved in the course of the primaries too flaccid and vague to entertain any realistic hope of capturing the popular vote. Nonetheless, it was McCarthy who showed the vulnerability of Lyndon Johnson, and after the New Hampshire primary, Robert Kennedy could no longer resist the challenge to reassert what many of his followers seriously believed to be his legitimate cause against that of the pretender Johnson...
Rogers did resist the draft, but only feebly. Nixon gave him his greetings personally in a conversation on Dec. 1. The next day Rogers saw his physician for the first checkup he has had in several years. "I'm not able to handle a tough job like that, am I, doctor?" he joked. But in his own mind there was little question about his health. He feels fine, is a frequent golfer and squash player, drinks little and does not smoke. "I'm sorry to say," the doctor said after the examination, "that...
...grotesque involution--also render it effectively invulnerable. Hasek, on the other hand, saw in these same qualities the faults which invite the wedge: nothing so ludicrous could really expect to survive. Hasek created the figure of Schweyk, the good soldier, whose will to survive encompasses his will to resist, and whose native innocence and peasant cunning provides the specific antidote to corporate petrification...
...cling to them even more tenaciously; those attracted to the new fight for it with greater energy. The path narrows between the new and the old. Today, says Astronomer Walter Orr Roberts, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "it is necessary to live with enough conservatism to resist the easy abandonment of concepts, but enough flexibility to be able, when necessary, to switch rather than fight...
Someone forgot to tell Producer-Director Harold Prince that Zorba isn't Jewish. Prince could not resist the temptation to try to fashion a sequel to his own Fiddler on the Roof, thinly camouflaged with a Greek accent. The resulting musical play is sleek, professional and synthetic, a brassy bit of Broad-wayana that is as far from the Mediterranean basin as is Shubert Alley...