Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy debacle became a topic of more interest in much of Washington and elsewhere in the country than man's landing on the moon. Americans in Saigon discussed the case more than they did the war. Politicians began weighing the practical repercussions: What of his Senate seat? The party's future? One Republican National Committee official even noted that Kennedy's value as a Democratic fund raiser had been destroyed...
...from Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Michael Stewart, who spoke in the best tradition of diplomatic vagueness about it before the House of Commons. The report, he said, was "far-ranging" and drew "important conclusions," but the government would give no endorsement before contemplating it further. It was, nonetheless, a topic of some interest to British diplomats-and a few seemed to get the message instantly. Last week, Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh, Her Majesty's Ambassador at Rome, pulled up in the embassy Rolls (his requirements apparently still justify one) at a ceremony on the fashionable Via Veneto to mark...
...proved to be explosive in neighboring Malaysia, Lee's city-state enjoys racial peace and political stability. Apart from that, Lee possesses one of the sharpest minds in Asia and some firm ideas on the role of the U.S. there after Viet Nam. That is his main topic in the following interview with TIME Correspondent David Greenway...
...education has become the most hotly debated topic in American elementary education. In recent months, a carefully orchestrated campaign led by political conservatives has embroiled one school district after another across the nation in angry argument over sex courses. State legislatures have argued the subject; school-board and P.T.A. meetings have been disrupted by angry opponents of sex education, who have sometimes labeled its advocates Communist sympathizers and proponents of "psychological VD." The nationwide offensive against sex education was a major topic at this month's annual convention of the National Education Association, which passed a resolution strongly reaffirming...
...nature of altruism itself is the topic of increasingly sophisticated research: eventually, they may reveal how more people can be encouraged to leave the crowd and take the crucial first helpful step. Meanwhile, Latane and Darley contend that being aware of these antisocial pressures is the first step toward resisting them. Thus prepared, they contend, "we can choose to see distress and step forward to relieve...