Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominate Adlai Stevenson as TIME'S Man of the Year. Had he achieved his wish and become Secretary of State, his kindly diplomacy and forthright manner could well have found a solution to the Viet Nam problem...
...which means, he said, official coercion, however benign. When the case reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, it avoided the voluntary question by ruling simply that the First Amendment does not compel a state to let citizens pray in a state-owned facility whenever they wish to do so. Judge Henry J. Friendly told PRAY: "The plaintiffs must content themselves with having their children say these prayers before 9 a.m. and after...
Thunderball spreads a treasury of wish-fulfilling fantasy over a nickel's worth of plot. The fantasy is the familiar amalgam of wholesale sex, comic-strip heroism, bogus glamour and James Bond (Sean Connery). The plot concerns Bond's new nemesis, Largo. As No. 2 man of Spectre, Largo masterminds a daring bombnap. He hijacks a Vulcan bomber aloft on a NATO training flight, sinks its atomic payload in the Atlantic near Nassau. Then, for an asking price of ?100 million, he promises not to obliterate Miami or a city of equal size...
...tailored his approach to his audience. Small townsmen he lectured in the style of a petit bourgeois professor. Grease-smeared workers in a Renault plant he harangued with: "They must not ask us to bow our heads when they beat us! The workers will march where they wish, and why not to the Arc de Triomphe...
...computer. Team teaching is commonplace -partly because "you can't afford to be a poor teacher when you are working with your peers in a goldfish-bowl situation," as Principal James Smith puts it. Bright students are given up to 13 hours a week to spend as they wish, hopefully in "resource centers" and "learning laboratories" where supplementary materials are available. To complaints that some kids waste this time, Newcomer replies: "The reason so many good high school students go to hell when they get to their freshman year in college is that they have never been on their...