Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most pessimistic predictions on "The Future of the Republican Party," the Forum's topic, came from Gerard F. Doherty '50, chairman of the Massachusetts State Democratic Committee. He called Mrs. Luce's discussion a collection of "dialectical politicalisms...
...lucky thing about the Notre Dame football coach, Ara Parseghian, wrote a Midwest sports columnist last week, was that he hadn't made the cover of TIME. This wry little note took public notice of a myth that is a continuing topic of conversation among journalists -particularly sportswriters. It is known as the TIME cover jinx...
...sing in a benefit concert for the Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference, Soprano Coretta Scott King, 37, wife of the conference's leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 35, struck up a conversation with her seat mate, a white girl from Louisiana who recognized her. Was the topic race relations? Peaceful resistance? Well, not exactly, said Mrs. King. "We're both a middle child, and if you're a middle child and can survive, I've always said that you can survive anything...
...individual essays fall a little short of the magazine's standard of wit, pungency, and elegance. But several are valuable and most are interesting. Wolf Von Eckardt discusses suburban planning with a rare sense of political reality and social morality, dragging a crucial topic out of the sheltered enclaves of the architecture schools. In attacking institutionalized art and "Lincoln Center Culture" Robert Brustein covers familiar ground, but his courage and anger make the article both pointed and lively...
There are several clinkers. Louis Halle's "A Sense of History" rehashes the worn maxim that technology has undermined the nation-state; his writing is no more exciting than the topic. Robert Coles, a Harvard research psychiatrist, throws out several fascinating generalizations about "Today's Youth," but considering his proximity to college life, he should have provided more examples...