Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coalition" with which King hopes to work includes a hefty measure of what his more radical adversaries within the movement damn as "establishment groups": The churches, the unions, the NAACP, the Liberal Democrats. In fact, the coalition is so broad that it can seek gradual reform, but hardly social revolution. If the reforms come thick and fast enough, King may hold most of the Negro leaders in line behind him. But the signs aren't hopeful. Revolutions have a momentum of their own, and a way of passing old leaders...
...involved in the Congo either. Yet these words from Richard Russell marked a strange new mood about foreign policy-far from general, but significant. Only a short time ago the most enlightened men in both parties made it a cardinal principle that the U.S. must assume, if not downright seek out, global responsibility for freedom. Now many of those same men are beginning to say that the U.S. is badly overextended, that it is not strong enough to assume responsibility all over the globe, and that it is time to pull back in Viet Nam and elsewhere...
...third argument against a series of distribution requirements uses past experience to attack its underlying assumptions. Proponents of the plan believe, first, that students will seek a breadth of education without fiat, and, second, that faculty members will voluntarily give up departmental time to create and teach optional Gen Ed courses. But the recent history of Gen Ed shows that students who are not majoring in science simply do not take "hard" lab sciences voluntarily. Nor do professors in the scientific fields offer Gen Ed courses which would appeal to the non-concentrator. (There are virtually no upper level...
...Commission, it recommended prosecution to the Attorney General's office. Made up of three clergymen, a high school principle, a police chief, and a newspaper publisher, the Commission is chaired by Joseph Zabriskie, who insists that the "rank-and-file in the state" endorse its efforts to seek out obscene literature which is alien to prevailing community standards...
...most disgusting scandal sheet the human mind can recall," wants to write an expose of her. His working title is "Does She or Doesn't She?" She doesn't, of course, and remains a brunette to the end. To get his story, Tony goes to seek her professional advice, posing as an eager but impotent husband and giving the name of his next-door neighbor (Henry Fonda). Fonda already has trouble enough trying to persuade his jealous wife (Lauren Bacall) that his presidency of the Sexy Sox company is not merely a front for habitual philandering...