Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson, having withdrawn from the race to heal national divisions, barges back in for the sake of Democratic unity. He and Eugene McCarthy reason together until Lyndon's logic or Gene's exhaustion persuades McCarthy to run for Vice President. And Hubert Humphrey? Franklin Roosevelt set a precedent for dealing with discarded Veeps when he dumped Henry Wallace in 1944 and then appointed him Secretary of Commerce...
Coles cites SDS' response to riot-control in Roxbury last March as an example of activist thinking spawned in academic isolation. SDS at the time demanded that police--as enforcers of a repressive status quo--be withdrawn from Roxbury. Coles sharply criticized SDS for taking an ideological stance toward an immediate problem, for ignoring the plight of Negroes "whose houses are being gutted, whose children are being killed...
...schizophrenics studied by Gottlieb, the fraction was present at far-above-normal levels. The excessive alpha-2-globulin, Gottlieb theorizes, may perforate brain-cell walls and cause leakages that could disrupt the organ's normal processes. Such disruptions might contribute to the delusions, hallucinations and withdrawn state of schizophrenia victims...
Ohio, with 115 votes, is another key state and, as Humphrey sat down to a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, the vibrations were encouraging. Earlier, Senator Stephen Young, running in this week's primary as a favorite son, had withdrawn his endorsement of Robert Kennedy. Young urged neutrality until the convention, but a large majority of the delegates are now counted as favorable to Humphrey...
JOHN UPDIKE'S new novel, Couples, describes a modern purgatory, a world from which God has withdrawn, a community without grace or light or love. The book, the story of various adulterous affairs among a group of affluent suburban couples, bears an ironic quotation from Paul Tillich that outlines the novel's thesis. The quotation tells us that when the average citizen feels that "the decisions relating to the life of the society to which he belongs are a matter of fate on which he has no influence," then a mood is created that "is favorable to the resurgence...