Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wild Duck is tough to digest, the left-overs of The Wild Duck are even tougher. Picking up the theme of idealism's tragic inefficiency, Rosmersholm concerns a gritty, ambitious woman who imposes on a respectable pastor the belief that he can improve mankind. While the scene never shifts from the house that has been Rosmer's family bastion for cons, Ibsen reports that there is a great liberal-conservative struggle going on outside. He also assumes that "the poor people" are more or less milling about, waiting for a self-sacrificing word from Pastor Johannes Rosmer. So much...
...world." In contrast, Christianity has shrunk until it has become little more than "a support to our weakness, companion to our loneliness, counselor to our neuroticisms, and heavenly confirmer of our national purpose." What is needed is an all-encompassing Christian vision-"truer, vaster and tougher than the Marxist vision," with a core of spirituality illuminating "economics, politics, and all other areas of human affairs...
...Army has had few tougher combat generals than James Alward Van Fleet, 69, who won three Distinguished Service Crosses, three Silver Stars and three Bronze Stars during a distinguished career that included leading an Army corps in Europe, defeating Communist guerrillas in Greece, and commanding the Eighth Army in Korea. But solid as was Van Fleet's reputation for bravery, it was occasionally matched by his reputation for shooting from the lip. Last week, on the eve of his recall by the Kennedy Administration as an Army consultant on guerrilla warfare, Van Fleet arose before a gathering of conservation...
...Charles de Gaulle was generally getting tougher on the S.A.O., neither Paris nor Madrid was saying how long the prisoners would be held in jail. Possibly there might be a swap-although many Frenchmen were arguing that this would be a betrayal of France's longstanding tradition of offering political asylum to all comers...
...News. Season after season, the Southwest Conference is one of the roughest, toughest leagues in the U.S. This season it is tougher than ever. Lines are brawny and deep, defenses are stanch and sound. But in the offense-minded Southwest Conference, the big news is a corps of fleet-footed backs who can run over and around the most dogged linebacker, butt heads with the best in the country. Among them: > Baylor's bull-necked Ronnie Bull (6 ft., 198 Ibs.), a halfback last season, who was switched to fullback this year to take advantage of his straight-ahead...