Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intangible but priceless object-freedom. Then came the familiar rumbling of iron tanks. Bitterly, I look to my leaders to find them afraid of intervening, yet ever anxious to send more and more troops to a corner in Southeast Asia, where they care about neither Communism nor freedom. I turn to the United Nations and find them playing a game that they can never win. And most bitterly of all I turn to face the hippies, the beatniks and all the other dropouts who profess to be lost souls, wandering in search of something to believe...
...said. To ensure that nobody missed the point, he used the "new day" phrase half a dozen more times, and it would be no surprise if that became the slogan of his campaign. In a Humphrey Administration?if there is one?he told reporters, "I may turn to 'new dawn.' The dawn comes slowly, but it illuminates...
...altogether. He was not worried about security; he could have helicoptered from O'Hare Airport directly to the convention site without seeing anybody but guards, delegates and newsmen. But he was concerned that his appearance would set off a thunderous wave of boos. There were rumors that he would turn up on the final day, but that might have been construed as an attempt to steal the show from Humphrey. Moreover, he himself realized that the delegates, on the night of the filmed tribute to Robert Kennedy, might be less than receptive. As it was, the memorial movie stopped...
Flip of the Coin. He found other liberal causes in the '20s-a turn as national publicity director for Robert La Follette's 1924 Progressive Party presidential candidacy, a scholarly and sympathetic history of Mexico, an angry expose of private utility companies' propaganda (The Public Pays) that began a long career of defending public power programs. Later, when F.D.R. came to power, Gruening was appointed to the 1933 Inter-American Conference at Montevideo and helped hammer out the New Deal's Good Neighbor policy. The following year, Roosevelt appointed him to head the Interior Department...
MORNING, NOON and NIGHT, by three young American playwrights: Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Leonard Melfi. No connection with James Gould Cozzens' new novel of the same name. Three one-acters: Morning (four Negroes turn white), Noon (white sexual mores), and Night (two funerals...