Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today, like "war," the word "hero" is usually preceded by a disinfectant: "anti." Not to the Duke. Conflict is made to be won; heroes are created to be the uncommon man sans imperfection. "I stay away from nuances," he says. "From psychoanalyst-couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing only." As Wayne sees film heroism, "Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an antihero, to show the human feeta clay." No one will ever see Wayne's feeta clay?and no one wants to. His politics seem...
...Ahern. Even so, the breadth of the old laws invited ar bitrary interpretation and unequal en forcement. All that was needed to prove lascivious carriage, for example, was some sign of sexual activity. "Oh, you know - rumpled sheets, both of them in a state of undress - that sort of thing," said one policeman. The police also found lascivious carriage a handy stat ute to invoke against anyone whose conduct displeased them. "When you see a black boy and a white girl together," said a Connecticut policeman, "well, you just know what's going...
...busy years of operation, ABC helped to organize hundreds of small foundations, raking in at least $1,000,000 in fees. Texas' Democratic Congressman Wright Patman deplored ABC's tactics. "If this sort of thing is carried to its logical conclusion," Patman complained during congressional hearings (TIME, Jan. 5, 1968), "there would be nobody left to pay taxes...
...else in America by bags of chicken feathers and cauldrons of tar. In a TV summer season stolen by Armstrong and Aldrin, the show's only acknowledgment of the moon was the crescent-shaped opening in its prime prop-an outhouse. Had the public outgrown that sort of thing? And would TV viewers be turned off by the program's shameless plagiarism of their No. 1 favorite, Laugh...
...their own shrine, then went on to the partially built shrine of the Roman Catholic martyrs, where nearly 100,000 people had gathered for the Mass of dedication. He baptized, confirmed and gave First Communion to 22 young Uganda converts, telling them that being a Christian was "a fine thing, but not always an easy...