Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems about to reveal some intriguing mystery. A seascape may be romantic and bathed in mist, while a painting of waves crashing upon some rocks can recede into abstraction. But Dickinson has still another side to him: oils that are pure dramatic invention. Such a work is his Ruin at Daphne...
...seek to unseat him as New York Democratic national committeeman and leader of Tammany Hall, struck out at his tormentors. In this year's New York City mayoralty campaign, De Sapio promised, his regular Democrats will "oppose and oust these self-styled leaders who seek to rule or ruin the party . . . It is time that we strip these masqueraders of the uniform of the Democratic Party under which they parade, and expose them for what they are-self-seeking and deluded demagogues...
...said he had resigned only after he was assured that the affair would be handled delicately, so that his reputation would not be ruined, and the chance to become chairman of Studebaker-Packard Corp. was dangled before him. The final settlement to pay back his outside earnings, said Newberg, was forced from him and his wife by threats of ten years' imprisonment and financial ruin from Colbert and board members. His wife Dorothy had come to New York to be with him during the negotiations, and "was precipitously reduced to tears at the contemplation of her husband...
...Court orders to integrate. For those administering Federal aid to public schools, Southern school boards must be viewed as experiencing growing pains, not as defying the law of the land. The squabble over the NDEA affidavit demonstrates how attempts to attach irrelevant principles as strings to Federal aid can ruin an otherwise good program...
Unless we resign ourselves to crawling underground and re-emerging into a world of ruin, we must work to avert an attack. Threats of retailiation are not sufficient, because fear does not prevent mistakes and accidents, and may, in fact, make them more likely. Fear builds more weapons, and weapons more fear. The fools are those who assume we can go on as we are. Fast-moving technology, from which we can not escape, calls for radical politics, and presents Kennedy's greatest challenge...