Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNWITTING alliance between Mumford and student radicals seems particularly unlikely, but fits into the pattern of Mumford's blend of eras. Mumford, the crusty scholar born in 1895, considers it a stroke of luck that he waited until the student revolt had matured to start writing his twenty-fourth volume, the second part of The Myth of the Machine (the first part appeared last year). "I'm entirely sympathetic with the students," he says bluntly. "Everything they're asking is long over...
...Committee what it wanted to hear. He was in favor of staying ahead of the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race. He said that the invasion of Czechoslovakia had set back attempts to negotiate an arms-limitation treaty as much as twelve months. Added Laird: "We have to start preparing all over again...
...conceived an other, even more ambitious countywide program of cap ital improvements that would represent the nation's first truly comprehensive effort by private citizens to cope with rapid urbanization. He knew it had to be big to make a difference and had to start soon rather than wait for the glacial processes of governmental action...
Complaints about the treatment of the four protesters were not only directed at the railroad. The New York Times referred to the police and the Brooklyn night-court judge as "allies in arrogance" of the road. Edward Dudley, a justice of the New York Supreme Court, announced the start of an investigation into the high bail figure set for the four rebels. "This is not the kind of case for which bail would normally be required," said Dudley. "Someone has made a serious mistake." Deciding that the affair was serious indeed-and that someone ought to pay for their discomfort...
Brooks proposes to start with clothes that make "strong, simple statements"-like his red-on-pink dinner gown in crepe with velvet and satin jacket. He would also like to see Pat wear more jewelry, including fancy belts and long chain necklaces hung with crosses or medallions. But he suspects that the President would not approve...