Word: whit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after an hour and a half with three of the most influential men in Development and International Relations. I knew not one whit more than I did when I started. I was not prepared to believe that it was my fault. They would not concede me my "pay" as a reporter. Since I was to come away with nothing more than a University News Office press release, then they would learn to communicate a little with the next reporter. I decided...
Harvard SDS-whose philosophy is based on that of the Worker-Student Alliance-strongly opposed the Moratorium "for creating illusions about whom we ally, whit" by seeking Faculty and Administrative support. "When you issue statements that appeal to the lowest common denominator you don't advice the struggle," Jay Sergeant, a regional SDS member, explained. "Groups like the have killed the anti-war movement in the past; they see these demonstrations in them sleeves as solutions, and think it's enough to act only once every six months...
...never knew but one artist who could resist the temptation to see things as they ought to be, rather than as they are, and that's Tom Eakins." Walt Whit man was one of the few people who had anything good to say about the cold-eyed and ruthlessly honest Philadelphia realist. Aside from the poet, whom Ea kins portrayed in 1888 as a twinkling old sage, few people could stand having their character laid bare with the visceral objectivity that Eakins brought to portraiture. He used his brush like a surgeon's scalpel, exposing old wounds, concealed...
...whit-hatted admiral could smash them...
Under a soft, woolly tam-o'-shanter, San Francisco State College's stopgap president, S. I. Hayakawa, proved every whit as hardheaded as the cops in riot helmets whom he called to quell turmoil on his campus. Day after day, newspapers and TV showed the Japanese-American semanticist with his academic Bushido fully aroused. The result of all that public exposure, Pollster Mervin Field reported last week, is another instant political personality...