Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noting that "Americans are prosperous as men have never been in recorded history," the President added mildly that, nonetheless, "there is in the land a certain restlessness, a questioning." He asked rhetorically: "Why, why, then, this restlessness?" He answered himself with an even greater rhetorical flourish: "Because when a great ship cuts through the sea, the waters are always stirred and troubled. And our ship is moving-and it's moving through troubled and new waters, and it's moving toward new and better shores...
...Toronto Symphony's Seiji Ozawa, 32, a Japanese and the only Oriental besides Mehta to flourish on Western podiums, is no less a dynamic charmer than Mehta. A favorite of young people, he sports a Beatle hairdo and a free-swinging style in the manner of Leonard Bernstein. Sometimes he indulges his expressive stick technique to paint panels of sheer sound, but he can also propel vibrant, vivacious performances as notable for their substance as for their sheen...
...citizen can take is to cough up a small campaign contribution in support of the party, principle or candidate that means the most to him. Only if millions of Americans come to the aid of their principles in election year 1968 will their parties truly reflect their wishes and flourish as free institutions...
Before the French Revolution it was the accepted responsibility of well-heeled aristocrats to pick up the tab for the creative arts, enabling them to flourish without financial cares. As ballet's reigning Lady Bountiful, Rebekah Harkness is a throwback-in the best sense-to those gallant times...
...there. Am I to believe that the American people-friends and neighbors-do not truly believe in what they are asking me to do? I may one day be faced with men of another ideology and be forced to kill them so that my society's beliefs may flourish. In light of recent demonstrations and an erratic Congress, what action do these friends and neighbors require? I cannot march to the Capitol; I can only march to war. While the enemy's blood may be spilled on the American conscience, it is going to spill on my hands...