Word: strives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary demands of the presidency. Solemn reformers will doubtless one day propose a special Presidential Academy with a faculty of hundreds. Enrollment would be for a decade, the curriculum immense and open-ended. With his power over nuclear war or peace, the American President can do no less than strive to be the world's most rational man; a philosophy degree might help, at least a little. Surely he also needs degrees in law, economics, political science and military strategy, to say nothing of personnel management...
...Since when is this supposed to be Utopia? This is a Republic in which each takes his chances. In return every man, yes, even the black man, has the chance to strive for what he thinks is important to him. Your photographs are very touching. But if you are trying to say that it takes federal doles to clean the junk from the yard, paint the house or wash the kids, or discipline the parents from having too many children, then...
Above all, man should strive to parallel natural decay by recycling-reusing as much waste as possible. Resalvaging already keeps 80% of all mined copper in circulation...
...audience which, if justice or sagacity rule, will pack the Brattle Theatre for the next five nights has been raised and schooled on William Shakespeare. But it shares perhaps too much with the larger audience, the dark army of a hundred million anonymous innocents whom any film must ideally strive to reach. For all of us, Shakespeare is familiar, if only by reputation; for all of us, the plays themselves are comfortably exciting, predictably praiseworthy, sometimes dull, and too often peripheral...
...Twice within five years, we had to hear from the land that all others strive to emulate, the harsh, frightening crack of an assassin's rifle. The shots that were echoing around the world after the death of John F. Kennedy, shaking the belief that the U.S.A. is the last place where the courage of an individual to fight against man's inhumanity to man would be met with the cruel bullet of an assassin, had hardly died away. And now Dr. King is dead, crucified on the cross hairs of a madman's telescopic sights...