Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaders of The Resistance, an anti-war, anti-draft group, will try to present the cards to the federal attorney's office. One of them, Michael K. Ferber, a second-year graduate student, said last night that he had been given word that the office was under orders to refuse the cards...
...root, patriotism bore no such scar. In 1578, during the Dutch-Flemish revolt against Spanish rule, the word patriot was. first used to mean one who represents people and country against the king. By the 18th century, patriotism denoted love of a free country, devotion to human rights as well as nationalism. To Stephen Decatur's famous toast "Our country may she always be right; but our country right or wrong" Carl Schurz later replied: "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." Who decides what is right and what is wrong? The Schurz position...
Royster, in a way, offers his younger colleague at Harper's a word of caution: beware the pitfalls of overestimating youth. "We are all excited by youth and vigor," he writes, "the young because they share it and the rest of us because we remember it. But the greater difficulty is that none of us-even young people themselves-really put as much stock in it as we all pretend to. When we must put the great affairs of life in another man's hands, we almost always turn to the mature-even the fatherly-image." Royster...
...Renta's clothes generally, for he designs with the woman of over 30 firmly in mind. "There is no other age for a woman," he says. "When she is over 30, she is just starting to live her life to the fullest." A man of his word, Oscar de La Renta during a lunch hour last week slipped down to New York's city hall to marry Franchise de Langlade, 36, outgoing editor of French Vogue. By mid-afternoon he was back at work, putting the finishing touches on his spring collection...
...Bland" is the word usually used to describe Boston's Mayor-elect. He looks like most any other well-to-do State Street lawyer. The people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room don't turn their heads when he walks in. (It must be admitted that the people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room turn their heads for very few people.) He hardly attracted any attention last summer when he would hop into the Clarendon Street Brigham's for coffee before spending the morning at his Back Bay headquarters. And his voice lacked the resonance or depth that one expects...