Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate nomination next year; he has always hankered for his late father's seat on Capitol Hill. Perhaps, like many career politicians, he cannot abide private life. Or perhaps he wants to protect his party from the candidacy of Novelist Norman Mailer, who has been threatening to seek the nomination with Jimmy Breslin, journalist, author and character-about-town, as his running mate for city council president...
...position taken on the Strike was that the New College would seek to strengthen the Harvard community's involvement in the Strike and in the intellectual issues bearing directly or indirectly upon it. It was felt that to bring about an "improved state of being" would be more effective than submitting demands for the restructuring of the old Harvard. Throughout these discussions, there was a strong feeling that something very desirable was happening to people's consciousness as a result of the Strike...
...contended that the militants made a charade of the academic freedoms they seek to preserve: that pulling the rug from under ROTC would scandalize academic freedom, depriving those who want...
ABMs and Germany. The threat in the East has placed increasing pressure on Soviet leaders to seek accommodation with the West. When the new British ambassador presented his credentials in Moscow last week, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told him that it was time to settle outstanding differences between Britain and Russia. Presumably that attitude extends to other countries in the West as well. Priority business with the West includes Russia's effort to negotiate an ABM truce with the U.S., reach a settlement of the Viet Nam war and prevent West Germany from ever becoming a nuclear power...
...year, and though Solti will be responsible for planning the orchestra's entire year, he will only have to conduct three months of subscription concerts. But the overriding reason for his decision, he says, is that "the Chicago Symphony combines all the elements that I seek in an orchestra. It has a deeper, more German overall sound than most American orchestras, but at the same time it has that typical American ability to be light. Within a few years, the Chicago Symphony will be one of the finest orchestras-if not the finest-in the world...