Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone cope with them. Occasionally, Johnson's shrewd mind did grasp the moment and the need. When, after Selma, he went before Congress to vow "We shall overcome," he was genuinely moving. And some of the innovative programs he began, such as Headstart, testified to his willingness to seek new solutions. Yet all too often he answered the call of the '60s with the responses of the '30s. He too readily fell back on "Molly and the babies," on the you-never-had-it-so-good rubric. To be sure, most Americans had never...
...York's Queens College, a 26,000-student unit of the City University of New York was shut down for two days by President Joseph P. McMurray "to avoid possible violence." Black and Puerto Rican students demanded the right to control the appointment of the director of the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) program that was set up in 1966 to help minority students...
Possible Biases. To some extent, the program's good showing may reflect the fact that the patients are older than the average addict and more likely to be motivated to seek a better way of life. Then too, by design, all of them are volunteers. The sample is not exactly representative: it contains proportionately more whites (48% v. 25% among addicts generally), with 33% Negroes and 18% Puerto Ricans. Even with allowances for bias, the results are so good that an impartial study group set up at Columbia University calls them "most encouraging" and recommends expansion of the program...
...struggle against the prerogatives of that system, and during the last two years Congress had won out. Its victory, of course, was purely destructive: it blocked Johnson's appointments and demolished his programs. But the important thing is that Congress won, and on Tuesday night Johnson returned, humbled, to seek the comfort of that closed society...
...will act as an agent of destruction or of change. If Les Biches proves a spellbinding and gloriously beautiful melange of personal relationships, The Champagne Murders is more complex and experimental, less perfect but ultimately greater. The character of Chris (Anthony Perkins) combines the Chabrolian malevolent driven to seek expedients selfishly and the Chabrolian romantic clinging to an intangible yearning for love and friendship; his vain attempt to satisfy both needs makes up the story (although we don't learn this until the film ends); by showing how his warped vision limits the success of his life-style, Chabrol...