Word: spartan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon will bring to the office undeniable gifts as an organizer and as a recruiter of top-notch talent. He has a valuable, no-nonsense appreciation of the presidency as a job that requires the self-discipline of what he calls a spartan life. Though he spent eight years under a man who was wary of the powers of the office, he declared in a speech on the presidency-one of his best-on Sept. 19: "The days of a passive presidency belong to a simpler past. The next President must take an activist view of his office. He must...
...male prostitutes in Trafalgar Square and intellectual prostitutes in the BBC's Portland Place. Down and Way Out. By all the laws of bloodlines and training, George Orwell should have been a Blimp. Born Eric Blair, into a military-official family, he went on scholarship to a spartan prep school designed to groom likely lads for their destined place in the Establishment. Like any dutiful upper-class English boy, he journeyed East to govern the lesser breeds as an officer in the Burmese police. The experience was decisive. His sketch Shooting an Elephant is a picture in microcosm...
Life Reclaimed. That seems to be the consensus of most thoughtful Americans. After a spartan self-denial that lasted ten years, Boston Psychiatrist Peter Reich and his wife recently bought a set. Mrs. Reich explained: "Television is part of our culture, and having TV will give the kids a feeling of knowing what everyone else knows." Similarly, Dr. Richard Kenyon, an official of the American Chemical Society in Washington, reclaimed his set after two years' banishment. "If you are without it these days, you are a little too out of touch with the stream of modern life," he says...
Sentinel's system of radar tracking stations, long-range Spartan missiles and short-range Sprint rockets could indeed be of some avail against Chinese intercontinental missiles, although Peking has fallen a year behind schedule and is not expected to pose any threat until the mid-1970s . Against the real and present peril of 780 land-based Soviet missiles already pointed at U.S. targets, however, Sentinel will afford virtually no protection. Even a "thick" ABM shield, costing $40 billion instead of the projected $5.5 billion for the thin screen, would be hopelessly porous. Missile experts are quicker to devise...
...quite some increase too. From spartan hours of 5 to 7 on weekdays the grad students have been boosted to 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 3 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays...