Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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VALUE systems are thrust upon us every day, and, living in the United States, we are not always able to accept or reject evaluations as freely as we might like. Thus, we grow up being taught- usually by the media- that war criminals are leaders, that genocidal war is something worth fighting, that academic freedom is more than a hollow deceit which allows universities to train students to kill Vietnamese...
...this month's elections, Maine's Senator Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 56, delivered a coolly effective TV rebuttal to the Nixon-Agnew campaign. The speech thrust Muskie far ahead of half a dozen other Democratic possibilities for the 1972 nomination. TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey talked with the front runner...
...childhood. "I was brought up a white boy in Oklahoma City in the 1920s and 1930s. I accepted segregation as a way of life. But I've come a long way. Very few of us, I suspect, would like to have our passions and profundities at age 28 thrust in our faces at 50." After he became editor of the Richmond News Leader (he was 30), Kilpatrick became an effective spokesman for Southern conservatism. His editorials were rousing pieces that got him denounced at least once in almost every General Assembly. Says he: "I counted the day lost when...
...divide men by killing them, they also forge a community of courage. A man's faith in his strength is "no mere form of vanity but an awareness that God can be found in any man." In The Challenge, one gaucho slashes another, then refrains from the fatal thrust. "I'm letting you live," he tells his antagonist, "so you'll come back looking for me again." Life cannot be lived without the dignity of danger...
...Your cover story on urban terrorism [Nov. 2] was a welcome analysis of a subject that has thrust its ugly head to the fore. Perhaps it will serve to open the eyes and the minds of all those who scream for law and justice in one place while openly applauding terrorism and lawlessness in another, and of those who fear a creeping octopus of crime in their own backyard, yet applaud Communist-supported and fascist-like anarchy and murder in others...