Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth. To the astonishment of Rocky-among others-Oregon's dovish Senator Mark Hatfield announced his endorsement of Nixon, who has plainly labeled himself a hawk on Viet Nam. After a long talk with the former Vice President in Manhattan, Hatfield emerged to declare that he would "actively seek support" for Nixon as a man who could "successfully resolve the Viet Nam conflict." Rockefeller minced no words when he heard of the turnabout. "It means that Mark Hatfield has betrayed his own integrity," he said, "as far as his position on Viet Nam is concerned...
Does he go to reconnect with old sources of life or to seek out a familiar place to die? The risk is written on every page, beginning with an astonishing, tumbling opening sentence of 198 words (". . . the moving shadow of the plane below them, the eternal moving cross . . ."). At first, Wilderness seems like a man going to be buried rather than resurrected. The news catches up with him that his latest novel, The Valley of the Shadow of Death (Lowry's original title for Under the Volcano), has been turned down by his British publisher. After that disappointment...
...Bonnie and Clyde are glorified in an "artistically creative" movie, civil disobedience is condoned by churchmen, children are allowed to do whatever they please so as not to injure their development as total persons, and American youths are justified when they seek freedom without responsibility as a way of life; yet the nation expresses shock at one man taking another's life. Come now, if a disease is allowed to spread, why such surprise when it kills...
Pediatrician Benjamin Spock, who is more concerned these days with pacifists than pacifiers, seemed openly to seek arrest in hopes that he could eventually test his crusade against the Viet Nam war before the Supreme Court. Last week at Boston's Federal District Court, he moved closer to that goal. An all-male jury pronounced Spock, 65, guilty of conspiring to counsel and abet young men in evading the draft. Also found guilty: Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., 44, Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber, 23, and Writer Mitchell Goodman, 44. The fifth member of "the Boston Five," Marcus...
...Danger of Reasonableness. On receiving the news, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, the former mayor of West Berlin, hurried back from Vienna. Ironically, he had been on his way to Belgrade to seek President Tito's support for West Germany's new policy of easing tensions with the East bloc. In Bonn, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger held an emergency Cabinet session. In Paris, London and Washington, the allies, who guarantee West Berlin's security, conferred about what to do. The painful decision was to do nothing, aside from making a few perfunctory gestures. Kiesinger flew...