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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen the greatness of his idealism, and if in his efforts to make this ideal a reality he often blunders, fails, fosters dislocation and uncertainty, he merely shares in a perplexity as old, and as common, as mankind. It is his willingness to persist that makes him uncommon. Let it be the greatest hope of all of us that his courage never fails...
George Harrison has come up with one of his finest songs in a long time with "Savoy Truffle," which is all about getting your teeth pulled out because you have had too many irresistible desserts to eat. Written with uncommon (for Harrison) felicity the song is uncommonly (for Harrison) witty...
From the rest of Europe, from South America and the U.S., other TIME correspondents reported the same combination of caution and anxiety to be heard. Their reports reflected an uncommon amount of argument and uncertainty about a difficult subject, but the staff that handled those files in New York had some special qualifications. Researcher Clare Mead got her master's in history at Notre Dame, taught high school in Texas as a Dominican...
Tony Perkins gives his best film performance since Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), while Tuesday Weld again demonstrates that, with good material and good directing, she has an uncommon flair for roles of curdled innocence...
...recent student-sponsored Coed Week brought women students from throughout the northeast for academic and social activity. Brewster denied that Coed Week had a direct effect on his decision, but his proposal to the faculty praised the organizers of the week and their guests for providing Yale with "uncommon excitement." The Daily News editor said a study of the additional costs of co-education was ordered by the administration concurrently with Coed Week...