Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Political Weapon." For the most part, President Johnson was notable by his absence from the festival. Toward sunset he appeared to make a brief speech. Said he: "Your art is not a political weapon; yet much of what you do is profoundly political. For you seek out the common pleasures and visions, the terrors and cruelties of man's day on this planet, and I would hope you would help dissolve the barriers of hatred and ignorance, which are the source of so much of our pain and danger...
...last 40 years, while the rest of the nation's has been generally rising. The optimistic view of intermarriage is that it is bringing valuable new blood to Judaism. Besides, Sociologist Marshall Sklare notes that in the anti-Semitic past the intermarrying Jew was likely to be seeking status; today it is the Gentile who may be striving upward, as "the tastes, ideas, cultural preferences and life-styles preferred by many Jews are coming to be shared by non-Jews." Many a bright Gentile college girl is attracted to Jewish men because of their intellectual and liberal attitudes...
...week for the 14th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference overwhelmingly approved the notion. But in the execution, it proved a bit more complex. The plan was to send a five-nation team, headed by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, to Hanoi, Saigon, Peking, Moscow and Washington to seek a way to end the war. The team's spread of political ideologies, ranging from the demagogic leftism of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah through the balanced anti-Communism of Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, would seem to guarantee the group a hearing in every capital. After...
Both at the U.N. and in Arab conferences, the 55-year-old Mahgoub has proved to be a quietly effective moderate. "I strive for the possible," says Mahgoub. "I seek the compromise that everyone can accept, even though nobody may be particularly pleased. Often, compromise is the only road to progress...
...atmosphere. The other is Sprint, a shorter-range missile with a tremendous but highly classified starting power. Sprint has months, or even years, of testing to go before it can even begin to be considered operational. But the idea is that the Nike-Zeus would go off first, seek out and try to destroy all incoming, outer-atmosphere-level ICBMs. If needed, Sprint would go after the missiles that might get past the Nike-Zeus destroyers or those coming in at lower than...