Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: It amazes me that many people are saying there is no choice at all between Nixon and Humphrey. They may be right but they still have George Wallace, who I believe is the only man who is really telling it like it is. It's just that most Americans are afraid of a "real" change. In their hearts they know he's right...
...Sir: Your remark about Humphrey's strategy ("he seems to play both sides of the fence or simply straddle it") [Aug. 30] aroused the Edward Lear in me: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey Is guilty of arrant mugwumpery: Now a dove, then hawk, With his fast doubletalk He cozens nonthinkers with trumpery...
...Sir: There has emerged one bright light in a dark political year: the rare and inspiring excellence of Edmund S. Muskie...
...Sir: Re your story on the two sumptuous housewarming gatherings in Portugal [Sept. 13]: I am amazed that TIME would have me saying "an earthquake . . . is no reason for me not to go to a ball" without troubling to check the authenticity. For your information, I have never made such a statement. Furthermore, since you do not clearly mention it in your article, let me also inform you that I did not at tend either party precisely because of the disaster that struck my country...
...Sir: The Basque language [Sept. 6] has intrigued me ever since I heard of Maurice Ravel's pride in his ability to speak this mysterious tongue. But there now exists a work which offers an explanation of its origin that is as intriguing as the former mystery: Dravidian Origins and the West, by N. Lahovary. The author offers phonetic, lexical and morphological evidence for close links between the Basque language and Dravidian, an Indian language. He concludes that these languages are members of an ancient pre-Hamito-Semitic family whose single origin and single center of diffusion...