Word: attested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he is a musical freak. And his tautly phrased solos on individual instruments at Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate last week refuted any illusion that he is a gimmicky stunt man. A pair of Down Beat awards by inter national jazz critics in the past two years attest his achievement...
...literary side of military life is one too often overlooked. The Defense Department's huge public relations staff, the Steve Canyon comic strip it encourages, and the books it distributes to its troops all attest to the fact that military men recognize the power...
Thus, that most un-Hegelian of philosophers, William James, affords even a place in his trinity for the great German idealist. Nothing could attest more profoundly to the extraordinary eclectic potentialities of the Jamesian scheme or to its capacity to effect cultural rapprochement. But in a society where not knowing what to do or believe seems a much graver problem than not knowing how to do it, the triadic model has further importance. For James the test of a belief is its consequences for action and the test of an action, its consequences for pure experience. He starts with pure...
...costs tacked on, sells in Germany for $15 a ton v. $17 for local coal. In the Ruhr valley, which digs 50% of Common Market coal, 24 pits have been closed since 1958, and six more are shutting down this year; frequent processions of silent, protesting miners carrying banners attest to the human consequences. Ten years ago, the 225 million tons of coal that Britain mined each year represented 91% of all the energy it consumed; by last year output had dropped to 191 million tons, or 72% of all fuel. All over Europe, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, coal...
...violent youth" was always overemphasized by sensation-mongers and presstitutes, and if he got in trouble, it was more the fault of the wide-open honky-tonks where he made his living. We who knew him the last 15 years of his life in New York can attest that he was the most considerate and generous human being, wonderful when singing for kids, and a helluva sight more honorable than the bored sophomores who loused up what could have been an interesting article on folk music...