Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free-for-all was assured last month when able two-term Mayor John Collins announced that he would not seek reelection. That left the field wide open. It also left Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, Boston school committee member and long a fierce enemy of enforced school integration, with at least a slight popular lead on the early form sheet. A strong campaigner who topped the ticket in the last two citywide elections, Mrs. Hicks wows the voters with her theme song-Every Little Breeze Seems to Whisper Louise-and her parochial slogan: "Boston for Bostonians." In a city of strong...
Anouilh's Creon is intelligent, dignified, and efficient. He didn't seek power, but "once I take on the job, I must do it properly." He is not without some compassion; he even offers to gloss over Antigone's first violation of his edict if she will agree not to repeat it. To him the burial of Polyneices is "meaningless," the people he governs are "featherheaded rabble," and "this whole business is nothing but politics." Carnovsky is marvelously forceful in describing his job ("Kings, my girl, have other things to do than to surrender themselves to their private feelings...
Stewart never carried out his plan to seek funds for the extension in 1966 because of the hostile reception it met in the Senate. The current economic squeeze may forestall the extension again this year, but with the Congressional leaders solidly behind it, eventual success is likely. Like the East Front extension, which was approved in 1958 and funded a few years later, Stewart's present proposal seems inescapable...
...statement concluded with, "We must declare our conscience at whatever cost. We recognize that if our military escalation is not reversed, the time may come when those who dissent because they seek peace will be placed under even greater pressure, and that the possibility of significant influence by the church on public policy will have disappeared. Should that time come, we urge our corporate church and our individual church members still to exercise the voice of conscience...
...reconciled to God and to one another." An amplification of this statement, from a section of the Confession titled "The New Life," describes what the church believes its members ought to be doing as agents of reconciliation: "The members of the church are emissaries of peace and seek the good of man in cooperation with powers and authorities in politics, culture, and economics. But they have to fight against pretensions and injustices when these same powers endanger human welfare...