Word: resists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorable or unfavourable "racial image" (whatever on earth that may be) I don't know. Frankly, I couldn't care less. I can say, however, that Jeffrey Howard is perfectly correct in remarking that "Kilson's views are not particularly black," if by this he means I resist anti-intellectualism and racial bigotry. Indeed, he could have said more: I despise racial bigots and the know-nothing mentality, and am rather proud of it. Martin Kilson Assistant Professor of Government
Students spent much of the afternoon in a tactical discussion of how they would respond when the expected "bust" came. Although almost all agreed that they should resist nonviolently, the students held a lengthy and inconclusive debate over whether or not they should actually obstruct the agents...
Another temptation Schlatter & Co. are unable to resist is the chance to cash in on a pile of merchandising arrangements. A new Laugh-In magazine is selling at the rate of 300,000 a month. The first Laugh-In record album has sold 125,000 copies in three weeks. A rather third-rate Laugh-In comic strip is running in 60 newspapers. Soon there will be Laugh-In jogging outfits, Laugh-In water pistols, Laugh-In graffiti wallpaper and Laugh-In fortune cookies...
...pays tuition for a college student to claim a credit on his income tax. But the maximum allowance of $325 would not help any student's family very much, and poorer families with a small tax payment would receive almost no benefit. "Tax credit" is a difficult phrase to resist, though, and only sustained opposition from the Johnson Administration killed it in the House last year...
...small-town hecklers by clambering to the top of a palm tree. There he turns himself into the latter-day equivalent of a 5th century pillar hermit. He promptly sheds all his clothes, capers among the fronds, and calls down unintelligible holy statements. Comments the narrator: "I could not resist a vague intellectual empathy toward the man who was now an abstraction - who had triumphantly nullified himself; who had attained the apex of an axiom." Similarly, in the title story, a "reliable, law-abiding, practical man" suddenly sloughs all his responsibilities to live adrift on a river in an open...