Word: spurns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of those who do not belong to AAAAS reportedly stay out for the same reason, and not because they disapprove. (Just as many spurn civil rights groups because they are "disillusioned," and not because they are satisfied with the rate of social change...
...Trib was joined by the Los Angeles Times. Having urged its readers to spurn Goldwater in the California primary, the Times then bowed to the primary's unpalatable result: "The Times congratulates Goldwater, both for his victory and for the determination to rebuild a unified party. There is no place, now, for anger or abuse...
Novak's concerns, though, are not strictly limited to Catholicism. Along with many other Americans who spurn the apathy that grew out of the affluence of the 1950's, he is searching for a national purpose. As he says, his book has two aims: "the recovery of the sources of our inner life" and "an ever more accurate assessment of our changing external life." Here he echoes the liturgy of liberalism, not Catholicism, but with a special twist. He asserts that Catholics have much to contribute to liberal causes. "When Catholics become alive in America, the moral revolution ... will...
...ominous warnings were made public the Humphrey Bogart Festival opened at the Brattle. The report says that by smoking we may die, but Bogart shows in film after film that without smoking, it is impossible to live. While the ego may heed the Surgeon-General, the libido refuses to spurn the Bogart Mystique. The tobacco companies tell us we are misinformed; there is no choice but to round up the usual suspects...
...first the townsmen spurn the offer and stand behind their popular fellow-townsman, Ill. By the end of play they will accept it. Ill himself is terrified at the beginning that he will eventually be killed for the money. He forgets his fear, however, and calmly awaits the death he is cynically certain will come...