Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lindsay has remarkable powers of survival, and he may recover from this crisis too. But for the present, he seems to have isolated himself and to have misjudged the temper of the unions. Ignoring police warnings of risk, the mayor persisted in filling a speaking engagement in Brooklyn only to be routed by a hostile audience stacked with striking teachers and angry parents. The city's Central Labor Council threw its full support behind the teachers, poured 40,000 people into a demonstration at City Hall. The mayor tried to take out his frustrations in tennis, explaining...
...million Mexican-Americans, Munoz was born in Mexico, but came to this country when he was thirteen to join the stream of migrant fruit and cotton harvesters. Whether migrating, or working at seasonal labor in the Delano area, he had no job security, no defense against the high risk of injury in the fields. One of the union's first moves was to write a life insurance policy for every member, and each union contract signed so far contains carefully spelled-out guarantees of employment security...
...Issue. Nixon's most recent problem is his evasion of a national television debate. That evasion has already begun damaging his image. In refusing to debate, Nixon is heeding the traditional wisdom-that as the front runner he would risk losing more than he could possibly gain. He is also recalling his unhappy experience in 1960. Yet the fact is that Humphrey would be a far less appealing figure on TV than was Jack Kennedy. In addition, Nixon's opponents can needle him, if he persists in vetoing a debate, by asking what he is afraid...
Bruce doesn't feel that rock will change greatly. "Rock depends very much on certain cliches. They're the essential vocabulary of rock. When-ever you add something new like, for instance, electronic sounds, you always risk destroying it." He is also anxious about whether he will be recognized apart from his Cream identity. "I had a terrible hassle just trying to find a company willing to produce my new disc." Meanwhile, Bruce continues his struggle to increase his musical powers by writing inventions in the style of Bach. "Two part inventions are hard, but it's the three-part...
...reprehensible than the red menace. But given the lasting power of the film image, we are perhaps witnessing the commercial creation of a breed of hippie at the expense of the real animal. Assuming that the hippie movement goes the way of the flappers and beatniks, we run the risk of seeing them in fifty years only as they were given us by the commercial American cinema. I think the whole thing is insidious, and I hope it irritates you as much as it does...