Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disgust I knew at age 14, in 1944 Germany, when Goebbels was crying for "total war." I believe there is no way out of the Viet Nam dilemma for Uncle Sam except to fight it through. But it depends on how you say it: you may stay American, or you may adopt the Hitler-youth mentality, as you do in that article. "New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands," you boast. Can you have forgotten that the same was true in Auschwitz...
...From America's beginning, youth was not a shortcoming but a virtue, not a time of preparation to be got through but a glorious Eden to be prolonged and preserved. Americans do not really want to keep the young in their place; they expect that the young will stay there out of their own essentially good nature. America's alltime young hero is Huck Finn, but not in the role of the brave rebel which serious critics (including T. S. Eliot) have cast him in, but in the safe and comfortable role of a backwoods Penrod or Andy...
...Brower and Beckett have run Transamerica's conglomerate bundle of businesses "in tandem," as Beckett likes to put it. Salesman Brower, who will stay on in a less active role as Transamerica's chairman, has concentrated on operating Los Angeles-based Occidental Life. Beckett, a former stockbroker, has run the rest of Transamerica's interests out of an incongruously tiny (30 employees) headquarters in an unprepossessing old building near San Francisco's nightclub belt. He spends nearly half his time jetting around Transamerica's expanding realm, likes to ask fellow air passengers what they think...
...republican in the title. In fact, about the only thing the two sides can agree on is to suspend the conference until after the month-long Islamic holy fast of Ramadan, which begins next week. Nothing doing, said both Feisal and Nasser from afar. The conferees were told to stay in session until an agreement is reached. Yemenis being Yemenis, that may be until Haradh (average daily temperature: 98°-plus) freezes over...
...Advanced Study, immersing himself in F.D.R.'s prewar foreign policy in preparation for Volume IV of The Age of Roosevelt. He will surely return some day to Washington, for, as an unfriendly writer puts it, he likes to "sniff at the hem of power" too much to stay away permanently...