Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unsure of its answers as any other great power? Can-and should-the Viet Nam war be won? Can the nation simultaneously allay poverty, widen opportunity, eradicate racism, make its cities habitable and its laws uniformly just? Or will it have to jettison urgent social objectives at home for stern and insistent commitments abroad...
...board's stern action undoubtedly grew out of a reminder that Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, the director of Selective Service, sent to the nation's 4,088 draft boards on Oct. 24-just two days before his memorandum advising that all draft-deferred protesters who act against the "national interest" be inducted immediately. In his earlier notice, Hershey pointed out to the local boards that the draft law clearly states that it is unlawful to mutilate or abandon registration cards. Any man guilty of doing so, Hershey advised, should be reclassified and declared a delinquent-which under...
...once bouffant hair pulled back in stylish severity beneath a 15-yard tulle veil, the bride swept down the stair case into the East Room of the White House. She moved in metronomic precision on the arm of her father, the 36th President of the United States, beneath the stern, portraited gaze of four predecessors (none a Democrat). The 32-man chamber orchestra...
...even the supra-self imperatives of religion. In Seattle, a permissive father's 14-year-old daughter who had been slipping out at night to date a paroled convict was straightened out only after a community-relations officer bluntly told her father that he had to show some stern authority. "The girl was screaming silently, 'Help me; make me stop this,' " said the officer. "What she wanted was security-a dad behind her. She wanted to go to bed with a Teddy bear, not an ex-convict...
...celebration that was an almost exact copy of the first-night program. But little else was the same. At the birthday concert, the distinguished musicians in the black-tie audience far outnumbered those on the stage (among them: Composer Aaron Copland, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Isaac Stern and retired Tenor Lauritz Melchior). Ticket prices were set as high as $35 (regular concerts currently bring an $8.50 top). The orchestra, which merged in 1928 with the rival New York Symphony and became the Philharmonic-Symphony Society, has doubled from the original 53 players, to 106. What was once...