Word: sightedly
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...bedrock of statesmanship." If steadfastness is a criterion, then Freeman, now 54, is no statesman. His mutant career has led through the House of Commons, Fleet Street journalism, television and diplomacy. The son of a well-to-do lawyer, Schoolboy Freeman was converted to socialism by the sight of Depression hunger marchers in 1931. As a young Member of Parliament, he was spotted as a comer by no less a judge than Winston Churchill. But in 1951, he joined another ambitious young Laborite named Harold Wilson in resigning noisily from the socialist administration to protest Britain's rocketing defense...
Though George Wallace has remained out of sight since his November trouncing, his brand of right-wing evangelism is still very much on the minds of his followers. The Association of Wallace Voters met recently in Dallas and it vowed to have a slate of third-party candidates by 1970 to run for state and national posts. In Louisville last week, 176 delegates - some members of such groups as the John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby - gathered to form yet another conservative party. Wallace, who did not even bother to answer an invitation to address the convention, was described...
...bottom, what is most distressing to the protesting doctors is the fact that some of their colleagues are making a lot of money out of abortions in London's private Harley Street hospitals and suburban nursing homes. For that, no effective remedy is in sight. One opponent of the present law wants to amend it by imposing a six-month residence requirement to quash the jet-set trade, but no amendment can take effect for three years...
...typical bit, Redd Foxx told Slappy White of the first Negro athletic-scholarship winner at the University of Mississippi -"He's a javelin catcher." White observed that Oct. 27 is a Negro holiday - "That's the day when the new Cadillacs come out." In one sight gag, George Kirby stretched out on a beach mat, opened a bottle of suntan oil and slathered it on the pink soles of his feet...
...meaning-of the event. Several performers (Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar) come through with a jolting, immediate intensity, but watching Monterey Pop is like listening to an LP with pictures. Twenty years from now, the film may have value as a historical curiosity. Surely the sight of such frenetically phony stunts as Jimi Hendrix mounting, igniting and finally destroying his electric guitar will seem as quaint as newsreels of the Lindy do today. But Pennebaker ultimately lets down the present as well as posterity by refusing to probe any deeper than the onstage details...