Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gibraltar [Sept. 22]: My family "discovered" the Costa del Sol, and an ancestor was admiral-governor of Gibraltar. I have very good friends of every kind there and would like to make a true and neutral comment: even if 99.2% voted against annexation to Spain, 99.9% would honestly wish an arrangement with Spain. But, as always, politics creates such complex problems that our short lives are dominated by a couple of people who, for the sake of their local pride, make thousands suffer-in this case...
...President of all the people all the time. Unlike them, Johnson has refused to recognize that in a society as diverse as the U.S., a President frequently has to take sides and act as a contender against some of the people. Said an aide: "I just wish that he would be the bastard that he really is." Instead, he has attempted the impossible feat of trying to please all of the people all of the time, chiefly by posing as a benign granddaddy and an openhanded Uncle Sugar. In consequence, he has managed to alienate a sizable number of them...
Ultimately, of course, the issue may become academic. The rapid development of contraceptives suggests that women may some day become essentially infertile and thus free to decide precisely when they wish to become fertile. Such safe, do-it-yourself abortifacients as the morning-after and the once-a-month pill are also likely to make abortion entirely a private matter. Still, those pills are far from being perfected-and may well run afoul of anti-abortion laws. Meanwhile, even present contraceptives do not solve the abortion problem...
...want to learn to understand it, some because it is fashionable-some because it is fun. "Art is one of the ways to find out what it's all about," maintains Collector Scull. "The art world is live ly now," says Painter Jasper Johns. "People sense this, and wish to be involved with something that's lively...
Segregation has worked brillantly in the South, and, in fact, in the nation, to this extent: it has allowed white people, with scarcely any pangs of conscience whatever, to create, in every generation, only the Negro they wish to see. As the walls come down they will be forced to take another, harder look at the shiftless and the menial and will be forced into a wonder concerning them which cannot fail to be agonizing. It is not an easy thing to be forced to reexamine a way of life and to speculate, in a personal way, on the general...