Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeling that he had seen that segment somewhere before. And that he had seen a lot of better panel shows. Not an inch of new ground was broken, not a refreshing new idea voiced. Part of the problem, certainly, was the format, which called for three ABC newsmen sitting around a table in San Francisco's KGO-TV studios to pose questions, but inhibited direct dialogue between the Senators. McCarthy was particularly critical. "This is not really shaping up as a debate," he complained. "We're just going to sit around a table and be nice to each...
Krulak had vowed to retire if he failed to win his fourth star by becoming Marine commandant, a job that went last year to Assistant Commandant Leonard F. Chapman. "I'm going to sit and inspect my fingernails for a while," says Krulak of his plans. "What I decide to do will be based on one thing: it must involve some opportunity to do something for my country...
PEOPLE have run out of new arguments at Columbia and are still where they were a month ago, when revolutionaries held the first sit-in. Everyone has dropped the usual debate niceties. A boy shouts at a red-armbanded striker that SDS has taken away something he earned $2000 for at $1.35 an hour, then tells him to shut up when he tries to answer. A girl in the student grill waves a New York Times article in the air asking how they are to trust an administration that planted police spies in student organizations. Students and faculty members grouped...
...course work; but most took automatic "p's" for passing. Most wait. Politics has replaced academics as the institutionalized rationale for living at Columbia this month. The huge apathetic majority has been forced to take a side. But politics does not give a student much to do unless he sit-ins or counter-demonstrates. As a result there is constant political potential for a large demonstration...
...seven days, the product that changes each Wednesday, supplied by a distribute who senses vaguely that the theatrical release of Robert Wagner films is a hollow formality prior to a greater pay-off of television sale and a nationwide screening on Saturday Night at the Movies. And when we sit in the half-light of these theatres, distracted by candy-laden children in action in too many aisles, wondering what evil lurks in the hearts of men who throw a sign saying ARS GRATIA ARTIS in front of a motorpsycho surfing shocker, we can grasp something of the apathy...